Gaviota assembly implies that changes are statewide - not

limited to a single park

Naturists on beaches are those who are changed. It's not a situation that can be solved by
offering an online "meetup group" at One Beach as an alternative for bottoms in the sand
through the state.
Released by: Naturist Education Foundation, The Naked & Natural Newsletter - September
2011 edition
GAVIOTA STATE PARK, California - In a particularly distressing recent incident at Gaviota
State Park, a California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) ranger had not only
issued a citation for nudity a citation for nudity on the playa, he accompanied the ticket with a
derisive lecture about the moral depravity of individuals who choose to be naked.
The gratuitous dressing down grabbed the attention of Dennis Craig Smith. Smith politely
asked for a meeting with the DPR management responsible for Gaviota.
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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 that was depending on the Rich Rozzelle Dan Falat Dennis Craig Smith, NAC Area
Rep. Cahill Policy. That longstanding DPR policy accepted nudity, unless a complaint was
made. In the event of a complaint, an established procedure allowed for the timely decrease
of "user conflict," and the subsequent restoration of private liberties for those who pick nudity.
Rich Rozzelle
Having been set in place in 1979 by former DPR Director Russell Cahill, the Cahill Policy
enabled a flawed but effective means of managing for clothes-optional recreation in units of
the State Park system. While one national naturist organization voiced the opinion that Cahill
would remain in force at California state parks that weren't named San Onofre, most naturists
recognized 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 achieve this at any park - or at all parks.
The two Parks Department workers showed no reluctance in exhibiting Falat's assurance
from last year as the outright untruth it'd become.
After the meeting, Smith sent an e mail to members of Friends of Gaviota. " It's so interesting
that you've asked this. You know, I've encouraged several people to photograph themselves
bare. (Now, I'd like to preface that with saying that I made it clear that I do not think it is
crucial for everyone to picture themselves naked and share them publicly, as I did.) We live
in our bodies 24/7 and we look in the mirror and we see ourselves it is considerably different
when you hold an picture or see a photo of yourself on the computer screen. do wish I had
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 clothes discretionary use
and this seems to be on the brink of being a true thing of the past. Q. Do you believe that the
sexual element was something that only you yourself were feeling? Or were individuals
"hitting" on you? 've closed Trail #6 at San Onofre State Beach to nudity, and it seems clear
they have been intent on doing it on all the other nudist beaches in the state."
A significant goal of the assembly was to file concern and indignation 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 reference of the ranger's demeaning morality
lecture, "the disposition 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 rude to the park employees, who are only doing
their duty.'"
Smith reminded Falat and Rozzelle of the concerted efforts by which Friends of Gaviota have
participated over the years by sticking up for appropriate standards of behaviour on the playa
and by arranging plage cleanups [NAC Newsletter, August, 2011]. Superintendent Falat
dismissed the good works with a result that directly compared naturists to felons, saying: "If
twenty cocaine users on a plage save a drowning man, we'll still detain em all"
Who is slandering whom?
NAC board member Allen Baylis points out that it was DPR itself that made naturists into
offenders. On one day, naturists were enjoying State Park shores lawfully, under the Cahill
Policy. But by the following 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 offenders.
Ticketing for nudity is not being confined to San Onofre nude beach and Gaviota. Citations
have been given by DPR rangers at Garrapata State Park in Monterey County and Lake
Perris State Recreation Area in Riverside County. Still, those who recently accepted the DPR
fiction the Cahill Policy would continue to be respected outside of San Onofre are now
expected to adopt DPR's next "job."
"One Beach" isn't just the name of an online movie that's being sponsored by a vintner. It is
the working title of a DPR scheme to close all state parks to clothes-optional use - except for
only ONE BEACH. Because the recognized nudist user group at that particular plage doesn't
accept the new anti-nudity policy through the state, DPR and its accomplice are looking to an
online "meetup group" as a replacement.
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