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While driving home from work late one Tuesday night, he noticed the blare of a siren and the blinding lights in his rearview mirror. “I was stopped and questioned five times, by five different police officers on my three-mile drive home,” said a 16-year-old f ....

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.... they smoke, if they’re hanging out with the wrong crowd, or if they are getting good enough grades. With all these worries, it seems nonsensical to throw one more worry on the already large pile of worries parents have to deal with. “My kids are home-schooled,” complains mother Tiana Hutchinson, “I shouldn’t have to worry about them getting arrested every time I send them outside to play.” (“Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” 4). Parents aren’t the only ones upset with this problem-causing ordinance. In 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of thousands of law-abiding youth in California, filed suit in Fe ....