Thanks for posting that - and I wish him well in his law suit.

The fact he was arrested for "suspicion of lewd conduct" is ridiculous in this day and age. Had they walked in and found him in the act would be one thing (although places like ABS and adult theaters even that should not be grounds) but just "suspicion" is absurd.

I'm curious if there's ever been a class-action lawsuit of this kind before. If so, what happened? If not, this is truly unprecedented.

Although I'm awfully pressed for time I hope I can look this up later.

I want to add now that the same lawyer will be filing a class-action lawsuit in connection with arrests at San Jose's Columbus Park. The story was in San Jose Inside.

It's a long story, so I'm attaching a PDF of that along with one of the June Mercury-News story about dismissal of the cases against 19 (!!!) men.

I see a lot of local news stories about gay, bi, or other "men-seeking-men" -- whatever they're called -- being arrested with their names and photos, sometimes even more info, from web sites for newspapers, local TV, or both. They're from a Google News alert I use to help identify places to update in the Sex Listings.

Whatever you make of it, this story popped up last week about a straight couple detained for having sex, naked in a car by the side of the road, in East Manchester Township near York, Pennsylvania. Only the woman was arrested; she had an outstanding unrelated warrant.

And as the story says, "they, too, shall remain nameless."

What the hell, I'll just attach a PDF of that one, too.

I am glad for these men that the case was tossed out...

But the fact the news reported names / photos of the people arrested they have already had their lives harmed by the arrest.