Court Opinion

ID: 7755382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 20:26:49.415956+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:27:45.587571
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NORTHCUTT, Judge,
Specially concurring.
I concur in my colleagues’ majority opinion with one reservation. In J.P. v. State, 832 So.2d 110 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002), on which today’s ruling is based, I wrote a concurring opinion stressing that in my view it is an open question whether the city’s interest in protecting children’s welfare can ever justify a blanket prohibition against them leaving their homes during specified hours. Thus, as I did in that case, I agree that this ordinance is unconstitutional for at least the reasons described in the J.P. majority opinion.