The Alexandria City Council has changed an “outdated” city ordinance that could have led to indecent exposure charges against mothers breastfeeding in public places.
The city’s old law, last amended in 1983, says “the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple” is unlawful.
An exemption to the law has now been added for breastfeeding mothers.
Councilman Rob Krupicka, who proposed the change along with Vice Chair Kerry Donley, had called the ordinance “a symbol of antiquated way of viewing the role of mothers in society.”
