L.A. County supervisors respond to Frisbee fine furor

[ellisonz]

Erroneous reports that L.A. County had enacted a $1,000 fine for playing football and Frisbee on beaches flashed around the world and brought protests. The panel ordered staff to rewrite the rules to make them more clear.

By Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times

February 15, 2012
L.A. County supervisors learned Tuesday what happens when you try to fix a problem that doesn't really exist.

It all began last week when the supervisors approved what they thought was a routine updating of various county beach codes, including a four-decade-old ban on playing football and Frisbee on public sand.

But that section of the law was obscure. Beach officials had not issued a single citation in at least 40 years.

The update, part of an effort by county lawyers to clean up and modernize volumes of laws, called for loosening the ban on ball play during the fall, winter and spring months when fewer crowds are at the beach.

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beach-ball-20120215,0,2555749.story

[petronius]

1. So the whole thing was actually a loosening of the restriction?

I almost feel sorry for the Supes...