A Federal Court has ruled that provisions in a Kansas Law that ban the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities unconstitutionally criminalizes free speech. The ruling sided with a coalition of Animal Rights and Consumer Protection groups which had challenged the state’s “AG-Gag” Law, which was enacted in 1990. The law makes it a crime for anyone to take a picture or video at animal facilities without the owner’s consent or to enter them under false pretenses. The Judge says the Kansas Law only targets negative views about animal facilities.
