The FACE Act

The FACE Act

RC Phillips, DDA (Ret.)

October, 2021

Pen. Code § 423. Citation of title

This title shall be known and may be cited as the California Freedom of Access to Clinic and Church Entrances Act, or the California FACE Act.

Notes

Note 

Stats 2001 ch 899 provides:

SECTION 1. The Legislature finds the following:

(a) Federal law enforcement activities proved effective between 1993 and 2001, in reducing and punishing crimes intended to violate a woman's right to reproductive choice. However, the level and threat of those crimes in 2001 remained unacceptably high, and continued and increased law enforcement remained necessary.

(b) Federal actions that proved effective in reducing and punishing these crimes include the vigorous criminal and civil enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 248) by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Attorney's Office; the creation by the United States Department of Justice of the national Task Force on Violence Against Health Care Providers that gathers and analyzes information, which is made available to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, on threats against reproductive health service providers and those persons suspected of engaging in this activity; the creation by the United States Attorney's Office of regional task forces on violence against abortion providers that coordinate federal, state, and local law enforcement efforts in connection with ....

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