Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store charge obscenity
Steve Stone reports in the Virginian Pilot: Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store (2.3.2008). After receiving customer complaints, policed issued a citation pursuant to City Code Section 22.31 which makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles." Abercrombie & Fitsch has a long history of targeting youth with sexually explicit images. According to reports, the ads in question show "partial" nudity.
WVEC news provides this report (1.2.2008). More reports are available through this Google News search.
The reports don’t provide many details on the city code in question. Typically, obscenity is prosecuted under the 3 part Miller test. ADF’s Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull provides a summary of the Miller test and a Summary of the Law governing sexually oriented businesses and pornography in Appendix C of the Community Defense Counsel manual titled Protecting Communities from Sexually Oriented Businesses.
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