Earlier this week, the Greene County Board of Supervisors adopted a new ordinance that gives law enforcement a way to handle a situation in the county.
The Board approved the third reading to create a public sex act ordinance that prohibits any public sex act in the rural portions of the county that is viewable from a public area. Then, if someone violates the ordinance, they can be charged with a simple misdemeanor. Greene County Sheriff Jack Williams says there is an area in the southwest part of the county where they have received calls from the public and surrounding neighbors of seeing adult females tied to trees naked and there was nothing they could do before to protect other peoples’ rights.
County Supervisor Chair John Muir appreciates the work that the Greene County Attorney’s Office and County Attorney Thomas Laehn did with their research and he felt that they kept in mind being fair to both sides, those that did not want to be subjected to that, as well as not infringing on those who like to be naked in public, since no law exists against public nudity.
“It comes down to somewhat of a reverse privacy. There’s a line and if you want to practice on the other side of that line, you need to make sure that you’ve got privacy, so that if people who don’t want to be part of your world have basically privacy of their own, outside public areas.”
Click the link below to access the full ordinance.