I attended an informative lecture by Bob Morten, a head of the NAC this weekend. His anecdotal story was one of a man hiking in the forest up the hill from Los Angeles. He was arrested for hiking nude by a helicopter and 26 police officers. He had the book thrown at him. The result, with the help of NAC and the tenacity of the guy, was that all charges were dropped and an apologetic hand slap of an edict that declared policy in that area was issued. It wasn't, isn't and won't be illegal to hike nude in that government run forest.
It happens. There are crazy police actions. There are a lot of some kind of dumb enthusiastic cops with peculiar attitudes about their positions. Lately, every week, there are guys like this are being exposed murdering, beating, abusing and torturing people. There are cops who want to be a hero, stepping out of their boundaries on a daily basis. If they don't have a law, sometimes they will apply another and abuse the system and the constitution that they are a sworn to uphold. We can't know which that we will get.
There needs to be a clarified policy in each department, an education given on nude activity and law. Perhaps each of us needs to get together with two other naturists, form an organization with a title and head down to the local chief of police with facts and get these policies and education to the cop on the street. When naturist work together with authorities, with a face, and perceived as a group, which we are, often things change. This may be better than hiding from uniformed mental cases and misconceptions...and we vote.
Jbee