Floatopia: why not enforce laws we already have?<\/b> I am writing to voice my concern about the ever-growing problem of adding on laws to address a few people\u2019s behavior. It seems to me we have laws that would cover the incidents that happen during the “floatopia” events. If the laws that are currently in place were enforced \u2014 public intoxication, public urination, underage drinking, littering, etc. \u2014 and then these events could be safer and possibly even generate revenue. Can you imagine if every person who threw a can onto the beach was charged with littering? Instituting more laws to take away privileges of the many for the already illegal behavior of a few is unnecessary. I don’t know why people are so concerned about making those anonymous organizers pay when the people attending can clearly be fined to cover the cost of cleanup. One argument that bothers me is the idea that the parties destroy the eel grass. I am sure that boats, people floating without alcohol, and the proposed dredging of the bay will have a drastic effect on the eel grass also. Thank you for publishing all about the new proposed laws. \u2014 Thad Nelson, Pacific Beach<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Floatopia: why not enforce laws we already have? I am writing to voice my concern about the ever-growing problem of adding on laws to address a few people\u2019s behavior. It seems to me we have laws that would cover the incidents that happen during the “floatopia” events. If the laws that are currently in place […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Letter to the editor, July 12, 2010","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}