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Tmaster148
03/17/18 12:53:38 PM
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http://fox13now.com/2018/03/16/its-no-longer-a-crime-in-utah-to-let-your-kids-play-outside-alone/?

SALT LAKE CITY Its no longer a crime in Utah to allow your children to play outside unsupervised, or walk home alone from school.

Governor Gary Herbert signed Senate Bill 65 into law on Friday. Dubbed the Free Range Kids bill, Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, modified Utahs child neglect law to remove the threat of prosecution.

Free range kids is a pushback on helicopter parents and the concept that children are constantly in danger. Even though Utahs Division of Child and Family Services had said it never went after parents for it, Sen. Fillmore said he had heard from some who were worried.


I'm actually amazed a state had a law against it. Overprotectiveness of children won't help them grow up. Also "free range kids" is just such a funny term to me.
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Irony
03/17/18 12:54:31 PM
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Stuff like this killed Harambe
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Tmaster148
03/17/18 12:55:25 PM
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Irony posted...
Stuff like this killed Harambe


People being bad parents is a different issue then making it it illegal for children to play outside.
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Irony
03/17/18 12:56:29 PM
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It wasn't illegal for them to play outside
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Kombucha
03/17/18 12:57:23 PM
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i would be surprised if this law was ever enforced when it was on the books.
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stoltenberg11
03/17/18 12:57:51 PM
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free range kids huh. are they gonna be branded?
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Tmaster148
03/17/18 12:58:16 PM
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Irony posted...
It wasn't illegal for them to play outside


Unsupervised it was.
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_Rinku_
03/17/18 12:58:39 PM
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That's pretty cool. As a kid, I couldn't leave my own yard. I'm sure part of that restriction was motivated by a fear of legal trouble.
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Irony
03/17/18 12:59:50 PM
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No it was motivated that Gacy was lurking around the corner
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Tmaster148
03/17/18 1:01:21 PM
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Kombucha posted...
i would be surprised if this law was ever enforced when it was on the books.


I don't have a specific Utah example, but there have been incidents of parents being charged with neglect for letting their children play outside unsupervised.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12031790/Mother-arrested-for-letting-four-year-old-play-outside-alone.html

http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/06/14/florida-parents-charged-felony-neglect-after-11-year-old-son-plays-backyard-90-minutes
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