Nude Beach Ban (Los Angeles Times) |
SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (KTLA) -- Nude beachgoers say they're being harassed by State Park Rangers after they were banned from San Onofre State Beach and have found other beaches to bare it all.
Two years ago the nudists were told to stay away from San Onofre's Trail 6. Now,
they're being told to leave the nearby beach on Camp Pendleton.
They say park rangers are following them onto the federal land and spying on them.
They're asked to put on their clothes and leave, activists say.
There is no law against nude sunbathing on the military base, but it is against the law to trespass without authorization.
Some nudists say it all amounts to harassment and they just want to be left alone.
State officials say they're just enforcing the anti-nudity law.
Nudists have frequented the beach at the south end of the state beach near Camp Pendleton for more than thirty years.
Since 1979, park rangers statewide had adhered to the "Cahill policy," issued by then-state parks Director Russell Cahill, which instructed rangers to ignore nudity unless a member of the public complains, but that changed two years ago when they decided to begin enforcing the ban.
State officials said the naturists have to adhere to a code in state law called nudity prohibited, which states that "no person shall appear nude while in any unit except in authorized areas set aside for that purpose by the department."
Two years ago the nudists were told to stay away from San Onofre's Trail 6. Now,
they're being told to leave the nearby beach on Camp Pendleton.
They say park rangers are following them onto the federal land and spying on them.
They're asked to put on their clothes and leave, activists say.
There is no law against nude sunbathing on the military base, but it is against the law to trespass without authorization.
Some nudists say it all amounts to harassment and they just want to be left alone.
State officials say they're just enforcing the anti-nudity law.
Nudists have frequented the beach at the south end of the state beach near Camp Pendleton for more than thirty years.
Since 1979, park rangers statewide had adhered to the "Cahill policy," issued by then-state parks Director Russell Cahill, which instructed rangers to ignore nudity unless a member of the public complains, but that changed two years ago when they decided to begin enforcing the ban.
State officials said the naturists have to adhere to a code in state law called nudity prohibited, which states that "no person shall appear nude while in any unit except in authorized areas set aside for that purpose by the department."
