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Carhart's Home Town Considers 75-Foot Buffer Zone

BELLEVUE, NE -- In between liquor licenses and land leases at Monday night's City Council meeting, a constitutional debate broke out. A proposed ordinance against picketing targeted at specific individuals, in front of their homes was up for public hearing. People on both sides (sic) of the legal quandary, including two women who work at a Bellevue abortion clinic and the head of a local pro-life organization, got up to speak. Margie Hover, a nurse at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's clinic on Mission Avenue who lives just behind the clinic, said the protestors would yell at her and tell her daughter that Hover was a murderer. The ordinance, modeled largely after the City of Lincoln's, would prohibit picketing directed against a single person within 75 feet of the person's home, except on the sidewalk space on the opposite side of the street. In drafting the ordinance, City Attorney Pat Sullivan said, the city was "teetering" between free speech and individual privacy rights. Attorney Tim Buckley, who was primarily responsible for putting the ordinance together, said the only difference from Lincoln's was the distance the protestors have to maintain from the targeted residence. Lincoln's is 50 feet.
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Posted by Editor at October 15, 2008 09:38 AM