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Alaska Senate Bill 31: Placing Restrictions on the Display of Harmful to Minors Material

  1. Read Media Coalition's Memo in Opposition to S.B. 31

Legislative History: On February 3, 1995, then-executive director of Media Coalition Christopher Finan (now president of American Booksellers for Free Expression, a Media Coalition member) sent a letter to Senator and Judiciary Committee Chairperson Robin L. Taylor outlining the constitutional problems within Alaska Senate Bill 31. S.B. 31 would have criminalized the display of non-obscene sexually explicit media in places where minors might conceivably see it and forced retailers of First Amendment-protected material to place such media, deemed "harmful to minors," in sealed opaque wrappers.

The bill was not passed into law.

 

updated 2/13/95