Montana: "Flathead Advocates for Decency" take aim at porn
Paul Peters has this report in the Missoula Independent (2.7.2008):
Flathead Advocates for Decency (FAFD), an anti-porn group formed last November in Flathead County, expects to complete its initial “threat assessment” next week, says the group’s president, Gail Tyler, explaining that the group intends to push local businesses and law enforcement to excise obscene material from the valley.
Nicholas Ledden reported on the organization of Flathead Advocates for Decency in The Daily Interlake (1.29.2008) (New Group Organizes to Fight Obscenity). We have not found the article online. But it begins:
A new citizens group has organized to fight pornography in the Flathead County. Their objective is to protect the community and its children from obscenity said Gail Tylor, President of Flathead Advocates for Decency. "We no longer feel comfortable just putting blinders on and not going places where those things are available, " Tyler said. "Its just too . . . in your face and it makes us very uncomfortable."
After conducting a threat assessment of area businesses to determine which ones sell pornography that may cross the line into obscenity; the group plans to ask city and county officials to enforce anti-obscenity ordinances already on the books . . .