Despite Court Ruling, Women Still Not Allowed To Go Topless In Public, Say Police In Oklahoma

Women Still Not Allowed To Go Topless In Public Say Oklahoma Police

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Last month, a lawsuit filed against Fort Collins, Colorado asking the city to “Free the Nipple” was settled when the town’s city council decided not to fight the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that a law banning females from going topless in public was unconstitutional and discrimination.

The Fort Collins City Council, which had spent more than $300,000 defending the law, decided that rather than continue the fight, “the money was just better spent on other city priorities,” said Tyler Marr, a Fort Collins government spokesman.

Females being topless in public is already legal in nearby cities Boulder and Denver and there has been no evidence of “any harmful fallout” in those cities, said the court. It also stated, accorfing to KFOR, that the ordinance was based on “negative stereotypes depicting women’s breasts, but not men’s breasts, as sex objects.”

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision has a far broader effect on the laws of toplessness than just in Fort Collins. The Tenth Circuit’s ruling also covers other states including Oklahoma.

Just don’t expect the police in Oklahoma City to make any changes to how they operate should a female there decide to go topless in public.

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“We will continue to enforce the law as outlined by City Ordinance and State Law as this preliminary injunction issued by the 10th Circuit Court is in reference to an appeal specific to the City of Ft. Collins in Colorado. Therefore, someone in OKC who is in violation of the law could be cited and/or jailed as this is a misdemeanor crime,” an email from the Oklahoma City Police Department read.

Under Oklahoma City’s public indecency ordinance, it states that nudity should mean “the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering; or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple.”

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According to Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, “The Tenth Circuit’s preliminary decision in the Fort Collins case – a case that has now ended without a full adjudication – does not change local and state laws in Oklahoma on the subject.”

A challenge to another ban on females going topless in public in the state of New Hampshire is now pending before the US Supreme Court after the state supreme court upheld the law claiming that while it treats men and women differently, public exposure of the female breast “almost invariably conveys sexual overtones,” reported NBC News.

So basically it’s two steps forward, one step back for the whole #FreeTheNipple movement.

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