Anti-Nudity Ordinance Advances in Brattleboro

A draft of an anti-nudity ordinance will be read at the Brattleboro Selectboard meeting on November 20, which will make nudity in the Vermont town a civil infraction instead of a criminal offense. The compromise on the penalty has allowed the ordinance to move forward to apparently an inevitable adoption in the Vermont town.

While a person will still be allowed to be nude on their own property, it will still be an infraction if anyone is able to be observed from the street or sidewalk. This would mean that if you were nude in your own home and someone was able to catch a glimpse of you through a window, you would be subject to a fine.

One citizen argued against the ordinance on the grounds that nudity was not harmful to anyone.

Citizen Tim Wessel said that he could not see a problem with simple nudity, since simple nudity did not harm or endanger anyone. Jerry then asked if the Selectboard didn’t have better things to do, including emergency preparedness and the like, without spending hours of their time on the nudity issue. “There are many more pressing issues,” he said. “You voted, [the ordinance] failed, put it on the town ballot, and move on.”

The members of the Selectboard were unmoved and scheduled a reading of the ordinance for November 20.

The Selectboard also voted to outlaw any employee of any business from taking their clothes off as part of their job.

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