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The Naturist Action Committee and Friends of San Onofre Beach have filed their Petition for Review in the California Supreme Court. This action along with others being taken by us effectively puts the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s order on hold. Therefore, the Cahill/Harrison Regulation is at this time valid and enforceable throughout California.

Additionally, the Parks Department has now stated publicly on several occasions that they will not issue citations until after Labor Day. Based on our legal actions, however, it will likely be much longer that that… if ever.

As always, we deeply appreciate your continued support. If you wish to donate, we need funding to continue the fight and provide support should citations eventually be issued.

To donate to the Naturist Action Committee, go to:

www.naturistaction.org/donate/

E-Bulletin July 23, 2009 - Volume 3, Issue 15

“When Do They Need a Fig Leaf?” July 16th’s New York Times’ Home & Garden section featured an article titled “When Do They Need a Fig Leaf?” The article, by Julie Scelfo, talks about nudity and children in the home. Scelfo interviewed parents and experts in the field of child behavior for a well balanced article that presents the varying perspectives of parents and guests toward children and nudity. A majority of parents and experts reveal that they do not have a problem with allowing a child to be naked in the home or in appropriate settings. The Times posed the question “Should young children be allowed to play in the nude at home?” to which over 500 readers responded. After reading the article, AANR Executive Director Erich Schuttauf wrote a letter in response. The Times replied and asked permission to reprint his letter in today’s Home & Garden section. Except for one letter, all the letters address the question “Nude or Not?” Read the article, and post or read the comments here. Read the letters, which also appear in today’s print edition, here.

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Responding to a request from legal counsel for the California Department
of Parks & Recreation (DPR), the California Court of Appeal for the 4th
District has published the previously unpublished ruling it rendered last
month in the San Onofre State Beach case. The recent appellate ruling
overturned a 2008 Superior Court victory by the Naturist Action Committee
and Friends of San Onofre Beach, a local naturist group.

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The Key West City Commission is composed of six commissioners and a mayor. The mayor votes when there is a tie vote of the commission. Naturists have three firm votes in favor of a designated clothing-optional beach. The mayor has stated he would vote against a designated beach if there is a tie vote, even though recent local Florida Keys polls have been favorable to a designated naturist beach.

This coming Tuesday, July 21, City Commissioner Bill Verge intends to offer a resolution that would place the issue of a designated naturist beach on the ballot for an October referendum vote, in which the citizens of Key West would cast their ballots directly on the issue. An unfavorable referendum vote would have serious delaying consequences. The strategy of Commissioner Verge is to preempt the City Commission with a vote of the people, forestalling the Commission’s future consideration of a designated beach.

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Tomorrow, skinny-dippers across North America will take part in The AANR World Record Skinny-Dip, a new category created by the Guinness World Records™ organization for the largest number of people simultaneously skinny-dipping. The event will take place at participating AANR clubs and legally-sanctioned nude locations this Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Nudist Time as an exciting finale to Nude Recreation Week. With 128 locations hosting the event, we’re going for a big, big number. Best wishes for a safe, successful, and fun time at your local beach or club. Click here to find a location near you.

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Tomorrow’s the big day when people all over the World (okay, mostly the U.S.A. and Canada) will be be stripping off for The Guiness Book of World Records sanctioned event.  The American Association for Nude Recreation is sponsoring the effort to get the largest number of people simultaneously skinny-dipping,

The event will occur at 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (12:00 Pacific) at over 270 AANR Nudist Clubs and numerous nude beaches around North America.  Come on out top your favorite skinny-dipping hole and be counted.

For details, go to http://www.aanr.com/skinny-dip.html

The Naturist Action Committee (NAC) announces significant successes in the Texas legislature.

Working behind the scenes with a professional legislative lobbyist, NAC has been instrumental in derailing four Texas legislative measures that threatened the interests of naturists. NAC quietly offered substitute language for two of the bills and then worked to see that the bills were not adopted.

None of the four bills was passed into law.

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