However, to prevent such practices the state of California enacted legislation to require that address requests made to police agencies declare that the address will not be used directly or indirectly to sell a product or service. URPC argued that the California law was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Later, the Ninth Circuit agreed with URPC and concluded that the statute unconstitutionally restricted commercial speech. Today, however, the Court ruled that the California law did not restrict anyone's right to engage in free speech but only regulated access to government information. In general, reporting on arrests is a journalistic practice going back to the origins of the nation.
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For their part, the NATO allies have contributed too little in the way of funds to even pay salaries of critical public employees. In Kosovo, and Albania itself, the Albanian mafia is widely seen to be the main beneficiary of NATO actions. Albanian Kosovo officials blame lack of Western financial aid. At the same time, the Kosovo situation contrasts sharply with the defeated nation of Serbia, which has engaged in a vigorous reconstruction effort with zero Western aid. In three campaign ads Forbes abandoned his 1996 strategy, which featured negative attack ads on rival Republican candidate Robert Dole, and instead pushed his flat tax plan and his plan to exempt Social Security benefits from federal taxation.