Sentences with phrase «public indecency laws»

Public indecency laws cover a broad range of behaviors, which helps to explain why it may be said that you committed «an act» of public indecency.

Despite what naysayers will try to tell you, it does not violate any public indecency laws, or any other law for that matter.

Some states provide only minimal protection, such as exemption from public indecency laws.

§ 6-4-201 (2007) exempts breastfeeding mothers from public indecency laws and gives breastfeeding women the right to nurse anyplace that they otherwise have a right to be.

29 of those states (including Tennessee) exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws.

Forty - nine of the 50 states allow for breastfeeding in public or private locations, and 29 states exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws (including Florida, where Kaidel is located).

Such incidents are why an Indianapolis lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that would allow women to nurse their babies in public without fear of violating Indiana's public indecency law.

Not exact matches

And after stating law so many times and them knowing that I wasn't going to move, then they threatened to call the cops on me and fight me with public indecency; even though all you could see was the feet of the baby hanging out from the large blanket.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 49 U.S. states that allow mothers to breastfeed in public, out of which two states, Virginia and South Dakota, exempt breastfeeding moms from public indecency or nudity laws, leaving Idaho as the only state that hasn't passed any comparable laws.

While 45 states have laws ensuring mothers can breastfeed in public and 28 further protect that public feeding from indecency laws, only 24 states have laws related to breastfeeding and the workplace (along with D.C and Puerto Rico).

The law also states that breastfeeding a child or expressing breast milk does not constitute sexual conduct or sexual contact as defined in § 566.010, and is not considered an act of public indecency, indecent exposure, lewd touching or obscenity.

Those states are Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, [As an authors note: I am happy to say that my states protects breastfeeding mothers in public, from indecency laws, and at work!]