Your friends at Skate the Coast are working on your behalf to eliminate California’s obnoxious pads in public skateparks law. A simple letter pointing out the fact that pad requirements force kids out of skateparks and into the streets will help make this law go away. Feel free to cut and paste the following letter (amending your info) and bounce it over to Assemblyman Leland Yee.
Dear Senator Yee,
I am contacting you regarding Assembly Bill 874 (Saldana). I am a [skateboarder, parent of a skateboarder, skateboarding advocate, concerned citizen, etc.] who resides in your district. I urge you to support and vote for AB 874, which removes the requirement of wearing elbow pads and knee pads at public skateparks and makes them helmet only.
Although counterintuitive, current law threatens child safety by prohibiting skaters without pads from using the safest possible environment for skateboarding (public skatepark) and forcing them into the most dangerous place to skateboard (our cities streets, sidewalks, and parking lots).
AB 874 represents a more realistic and practical application of Section 115800. Passage of AB 874 encourages more kids to use public skateparks eliminating the dangers of traffic, uneven surfaces and pedestrians.
Again, I kindly urge you to support AB 874.
Thank you.
(Your Name)
(Your Address)
Now plug that letter in right here:
http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.aspx?district=SD08
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