South Salt Lake, Utah, reached a settlement agreement with the Utah Animal Rights Coalition over protests earlier this year at South Salt Lake KFC restaurants.

UARC attorney Brian Barnard filed the complaint which arose over South Salt Lake\’s regulation of protests. The city requires five days notification to obtain a permit to protest — the law doesn\’t include any provision at all for spontaneous protests. The city did waive the five day requirement for UARC but the permit it was finally issued said the protester could not \”approach any customers who wish to enter the business premises.\”

When UARC applied for a permit for a March 10 protest, the permit was denied because the group had not filed for the permit at least 5 days in advance.

The settlement between the animal rights group and the city required South Salt Lake to pay $101 in damages and agree to revise its ordinances relating to protests. The city is currently conceding changes that allow protestors to get within 5 feet of people who are not part of the protest, and would change the 5 day notification period to 3 days.

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South Salt Lake Settles Suit Over Protests at KFC.