HomeMy Public PortalAboutUnnumbered (02-05-57)RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD SUPPORTING ENACTMENT OF LEGISLA-
TION RELATING TO THE SALE OF CRIME COMIC BOOKS.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of- Lynwood has
found as a fact that there is a great increase in the number and.
variety of illustrated crime books, magazines, and other publications
being offered for sale to children, and are often placed for sale
side by side with such humorous and adventure magazines, and
WHEREAS, it appears that children below the age of eighteen
years.of age are of susceptible and impressionable character, are
often stimulated by collections of pictures and stories of criminal
acts, and do in fact often commit such crimes partly because incited
to do so by such publications, and
WHEREAS, the possibility of harm by restricting free utter-
ance through harmless publications is too remote and too negligible a
consequence of dealing with the evil of the publications herein des-
cribed, when in the hands of children, and
-- - >- WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Lynwood adopted
Ordinance No. 490 on January 4, 1949, prohibiting the sale to children
under the age of eighteen years of any book or magazine or other pub-
lication, in which there is prominently featured an account of crime,
and which depicts by the use of drawings or photographs the commission
of certain crimes of force, violence, or bloodshed,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Lynwood, as follows:
1. The Legislature of the State of California is hereby
urged and requested to pass proper legislation to prohibit or control
`the sale all literature within the State portraying and
izing horror, sex, depravity, crime, obscenity, and licentiousness,
partic ularly where it comes into the hands of children.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of Febru y, :•
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