Federal court strikes down NC's controversial "ag-gag" law

[mucifer]

In a stunning decision, a federal court judge has struck down North Carolina’s “ag-gag law,” ruling that several of its provisions are unconstitutional and violate the First Amendment.

Passed in 2015, the law was entitled the “Property Protection Act.” It allowed courts to assess civil penalties on employees who took videos or photos of a business’s non-public areas to document alleged wrongdoing, and then passed that information to anyone besides the employer or law enforcement.

While bill supporters argued that it protected businesses from the theft of trade secrets, its underlying intent was to thwart animal rights activists from getting hired at farms and research labs and then conducting undercover investigations.

http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2020/06/15/federal-court-strikes-down-ncs-controversial-ag-gag-law/

Down with the factory farms!!!

This is the veg group.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. We have such laws in MO too. Good. These industry groups are trying every mechanism they...

can come up w/, to hide the conditions these animals are raised in, horrible. I remember when they passed such laws in MO, and thinking how can they pass such laws forbidding even pictures etc. taken of such horrible conditions. I even think those taking such pics were subject to penalties too...

“We’re not surprised by the conditions we found in Missouri, especially when factory farms know that these ‘ag-gag’ laws make it harder to report such abuse,” said Daphna Nachminovitch, also a senior vice president at PETA. Oct 2, 2014 article in Farm and Field magazine.

[CatLady78]

2. Horrible (factory farming that is)..kick