Legal Clarity

In an attempt to make its indecent exposure law clear, Manatee County, Fla., has ruled that women cannot expose more than three-quarters of their breasts in public. And men and women can expose no more than two-thirds of their buttocks. But the concept has left sheriff deputies wondering how to judge the level of a person’s exposure. “I don’t think we’ll be tape-measuring,” a sheriff’s spokesman said. “It would have to be well beyond what the ordinance said, like naked.” (Reuters) ...Women are thus safe to expose one entire breast, unless the other has been lost to cancer, except on alternate Tuesdays, the entire month of January, and Groundhog Day.