Jacqui Smith cracks down on gangs via computers, closets • The Register
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today announced plans to insert provisions into the Policing and Crime Bill that would allow courts to impose a range of restrictions on individuals.These include not allowing individuals to enter a “specified place”, for example a gang’s “territory”, and banning them from using and threatening to use violence.
More bizarrely, perhaps, injunctions could be used to prevent individuals using the internet to encourage or facilitate violence. Lastly, courts would be able to prevent individuals wearing “particular items of clothing such as gang colours or balaclavas which prevent identification”.
That’d include Guy Fawkes masks, then?
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