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# Louisiana bill would outlaw low-riding pants, and Santa Monica weighs in
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/051704-story-20040517/
- Published: 2004-05-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:19:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Louisiana Rep. Derrick Shepherd has filed a bill that, if passed, would outlaw low-riding pants. He said he did it because he was tired of catching glimpses of boxer shorts and G-strings over the lowered belt lines of young adults.

The law would punish anyone caught wearing the pants with a fine of as much as $500 or as many as six months in jail, or both.

The bill would be tacked onto the state’s obscenity law, which restricts sexual activity in public places and the sale of sexually explicit items.

Los Angeles could arguably be considered the mecca of people who wear low-riding pants, commonly seen on just about every young person in Santa Monica.

So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Is the government going too far in regulating us?”

Call (310) 285-8106 with your responses before Friday at 5 p.m. We’ll print them in the weekend edition. Please limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 17, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)