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Gaviota meeting implies that changes are statewide - not restricted to one park

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Coleman Hald
Naturists on seashores are the people who are changed. It's not a situation that can be resolved by offering an online "meetup group" at One Beach as a substitute for bottoms in the sand through the state.
Released by: Naturist Education Foundation, The Bare & Natural Newsletter - September 2011 variant
GAVIOTA STATE PARK, California - In a particularly distressing recent incident at Gaviota State Park, a California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) ranger hadn't only issued a citation for nudity a citation for nudity on the strand, he accompanied the ticket with a derisive talking to about the moral depravity of those who choose to be naked.
The gratuitous dressing down caught the attention of Dennis Craig Smith. A popular author and long time naturist, Smith heads Friends of Gaviota and is an Area Representative for the Naturist Action Committee. Smith politely asked for a meeting with the DPR direction responsible for Gaviota.
Dennis Craig Smith, Area Rep.
Such local assemblies, formal and otherwise, haven't been unusual. Merely a little more than last year, on July 1, 2010, Smith and several Friends of Gaviota members had met with Daniel Lee Falat, Superintendent for Gaviota State Park, Refugio State Beach, and El Capitan State Beach, and with DPR's Channel Islands District Superintendent Richard Charles Rozzelle. At that meeting, Falat said that his rangers would continue following protocol which was based on the Rich Rozzelle Dan Falat Dennis Craig Smith, NAC Region Rep. Cahill Policy. In the event of a grievance, an established process allowed for the timely decrease of "user conflict," and the following restoration of private freedoms for people who select nudity.
Rich Rozzelle

Having been set in place in 1979 by former DPR Director Russell Cahill, the Cahill Policy enabled a defective but powerful means of managing for clothes-optional recreation in units of the State Park system. While one national naturist organization expressed the belief that Cahill would stay in force at California state parks which weren't named San Onofre, most naturists comprehended that dream to be neither credible nor practical.
Dan Falat
The Naturist Action Committee has pointed out since 2008 that if DPR could abrogate Cahill at one park, it could do this at any park - or at all parks.
On September 1, 2011, Superintendent Falat and District Superintendent Rozzelle met with Dennis Smith and a little smattering of naturists in the DPR office at Refugio State Beach. Both Parks Department employees revealed no reluctance in showing Falat's self-confidence from a year ago as the outright untruth it'd become.
After the assembly, Smith sent an e-mail to members of Friends of Gaviota. "I do wish I 'd better news to report after our meeting with Rich Rozzelle and Dan Falat," he wrote.
Smith continued: "The mantra was: the Cahill Policy is dead, and Regulation 4322 outlaws nudity on state park property.' For decades we enjoyed hassle free clothing discretionary use and this looks to be on the verge of being a thing of days gone by. They have closed Trail #6 at San Onofre State Beach to nudity, and it seems clear they can be intent on doing it on all the other naturist beaches in the state."
An important goal of the assembly was to file anxiety and outrage at the combative and officious manner in which the ranger had addressed the beachgoers to whom he was giving nudity citations. Smith reports that upon mention of the ranger's demeaning morality lecture, "the mood of the officials turned hostile quickly, and we were accused of 'slandering' their officers." Smith says that Rozzelle and Falat characterized naturists as "being the ones who have been abusive and ill-mannered to the park personnel, who are simply doing their duty.'"
Smith reminded Falat and Rozzelle of the concerted efforts in which Friends of Gaviota have participated through the years by sticking up for proper standards of behavior on the playa and by organizing playa clean-ups [NAC Newsletter, August, 2011]. Superintendent Falat dismissed the good works with a response that directly compared naturists to felons, saying: "If twenty cocaine users on a sand save a drowning man, we'll still arrest em all"
Who is slandering whom?
On one day, nudists were appreciating State Park beaches officially, under the Cahill Policy. But by the next day, California Parks Director Ruth Coleman - a bureaucrat elected by no one - had signed a piece of paper rescinding the Cahill Policy. Unexpectedly, naturists in State Parks through the entire state were criminals.
Ticketing for nudity isn't being confined to San Onofre nude beach and Gaviota. Citations are also given by DPR rangers at Garrapata State Park in Monterey County and Lake Perris State Recreation Area in Riverside County. Nevertheless, those who recently accepted the DPR fiction the Cahill Policy would continue being honored outside of San Onofre are now anticipated to adopt DPR's next "job."
"One Beach" is not just the name of an online picture that is being sponsored by a vintner. It's the working title of a DPR scheme to close all state parks to clothing-optional use - except for only ONE BEACH. Because the established nudist user group at that particular playa doesn't accept the new anti-nudity policy throughout the state, DPR and its accomplice are looking to an online "meetup group" as a replacement.
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