Starship hearing is Monday – The Newnan Times-Herald

Representatives from both Coweta County and the local Starship store will be in court Monday for a hearing on the store’s alleged violation of the county’s obscenity ordinance.

The hearing will be held at 10 a.m. in Coweta Magistrate Court before Chief Magistrate James Stripling.

Starship was issued a citation on May 17 for violating the ordinance’s prohibition on the sale of sex toys.

Under the county’s ordinance, it is unlawful to sell, or possess with the intent to sell, ‘any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs,’ unless the devices are being sold for a ‘bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial, or law enforcement purpose.’

Starship’s position is that the devices were only being sold for medical, scientific and educational purposes. Signs in the store indicate the items are only to be purchased for those purposes, according to Starship’s attorney, Allen Begner.

via Starship hearing is Monday – The Newnan Times-Herald.