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RESOLUTION NO. 74-42 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO SEND A LETTER OF SOLICITATION TO THE CITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY, THE ATTOP~NEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, AND THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES URGING THAT THEY JOIN US IN SOLICITING THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO ENACT LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING "LOCAL" COMMUNITY STANDARDS IN PLACE OF "STATEWIDE" STANDARDS IN JUDGING ALLEGED OBSCENE MATTER; AND ALSO URGING THAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE PASS AN ENABLING LAW GIVING CITIES THE "LOCAL OPTION" TO ENACT THEIR OWN OBSCENITY LAWS CONSISTENT WITH THE TEST SET FORTH IN THE RECENT SUPREME COURT CASE OF MILLER V. CALIFORNIA WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana has become aware of the growing public outcry against the ever increasing patently offensive material that is being peddled on our city streets; and WHEREAS, the City Council of Santa Ana feels that the presence of this material not only lowers the dignity of the city's character, but presents a hazard to the children of the community byway of being harmful material; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana is in full support of the recent efforts by the United States Supreme Court to stem the tide on the flood of obscenity that has been gushing into our communities; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court has provided new standards for judging obseene matters, which standard no longer requires that matters alleged to be obscene be "utterly without redeeming social value", but only requires that such matters lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court's decision does not restrict the state legislature from passing a law giving cities the "local option" to enact their own obscenity laws, consistent with the requirement~ laid down by the Supreme Court; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court's decision did not make a "statewide" standard mandatory, but only acceptable, in judging whether certain material is obscene; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby directs the City Clerk to send a letter of solicitation to the cities of Orange County, the Attorney General's office, and the League of California Cities, urging that they join us in soliciting the State Legislature to adopt legis- lation which would make the size of the geographic o~unity, whose contemporary standards are to be used in judging alleged obscene matter, the judicial district in which the presecution in commenced; and also urging that the State Legislature pass enabling legislation, giving cities the "local option" to enact their own obscenity laws consistent with the test set forth in the recent Supreme Court case of Miller v. California.