To control truancy as well as juvenile crime, the town of Monrovia, California, enacted a daytime teen curfew, providing only a brief window during which young people are allowed to be out alone during the day, even to walk the family dog. This led a 16-year-old en route to a fast food restaurant to be stopped and questioned five different times, by five different police officers. Two homeschooled brothers were stopped twenty times as they walked to special classes and back. A 22-year-old woman was questioned twice as she tried to use a public telephone, and a young-looking high school graduate was stopped and questioned ten times.

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