Opinion ID: 377140
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Investigation Requirement

Text: 25 The ordinance also requires that the Police Department make a special investigation into the background of those who apply for an adult bookstore license. 29 Plaintiff owners are subject to and have standing to challenge this provision. The purpose of this special investigation, the city informs us, is to assure that those with past records of certain types of misconduct are discovered and forbidden to operate adult bookstores. 30 The investigation is therefore simply a device to further provisions of the ordinance that we find unconstitutional in Part VI-F of this opinion, infra. Because the city has offered no justification for the investigation other than the furtherance of an unconstitutional end, and because the investigation would thus invade plaintiffs' privacy for no legitimate purpose, the investigation requirement violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. 26