An Inclusive Litany

2/3/92

After bystanders were wounded during a gang shootout in Las Palmas Park in San Fernando, California, gang members were banned from the park. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the ban as a violation of the constitutional right to free assembly. The measure requires police to make lists of gang members and inform them that they are banned from the park; former gang members would be allowed to re-enter the park only after formally renouncing membership.