FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter
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SUBJECT: Calif brf law needs help now
DATE: 03-18-97   16:40 EST
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Dr. Bruce Smith will present tomorrow 3/19 to a committe in the State
Legislature in support of a bill to protect women who need to brfeed in
public.  The bills author wants concrete examples of harassment that has
occured to women in Calif in the last 10 years in order to document a need for
the legislation, and there have not been many responses.

He needs: womans name/current address and phone/date of incident/age of baby
(mo)/town or county/site of occurrence (restuarant, bank, part, MD office
etc)/person objecting(waiter,patron,MD,police, etc)/how harassed (told to
move, dirty look, threatened or scolded, ticketed,etc)/what outcome was
(continued to brfdg, moved to continue brfdg,cited for "indecent
expos"/ifcited, was fine paid?/would you (harassed woman) be willing to
testify before state legislature if asked?

Also needs name/address/position/phone of person reporting above if different
from the actual harassed person.

pl fax c/o San Bernardino Dept of P. Health  OR email Dr SMith
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Thanks!  (this is the second time Calif has tried this--so it may be hard to
do again if does not pass)