Councilmember Brooke Pinto said residents District wide are dealing with increased protester noise that go beyond First Amendment protections.
WASHINGTON — DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto introduced emergency legislation Thursday to address the concerns of neighbors who say they are under siege from unnecessarily loud protests near their homes, with noise levels that often exceed 100 decibels.
“The purpose of this emergency and temporary legislation is to amend, on an emergency basis, the Residential Tranquility Act of 2010 to prohibit persons targeting a residence or purposes of a demonstration from using amplified sound devices in a residential zone and to prohibit a person as part of a group of 3 or more persons from targeting a residence for purposes of a demonstration between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.,” Councilmember Pinto wrote in a memo to DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson.
The legislation from Pinto comes in the wake of a WUSA9 investigation, which highlighted …