Speaking out against Kyleigh's law

On May 1, a new law went into effect where drivers under age 21 must place a small red decal on their vehicle’s license plate (Kyleigh’s law). This law allows the police to pull over the vehicle if there are more than two occupants inside, even if the driver is doing nothing else wrong and also allows the police to pull over the vehicle if it is past 11 p.m. The law was intended to protect our younger generation during their beginning years of driving, when statistics show that accidents occur more frequently and many of these drivers are seriously injured or killed, due to lack of experience. What our lawmakers haven’t taken into consideration is that this law can also harm our younger generation, making them easier targets of predators. Pedophiles and other wrong-doers will also be able to see the red decal, making it easier for them to identify their targets. They will be able to follow them and find out where they go to school, to work, where they live and identify the vehicles in shopping malls, where the parking lots are dimly lit. What the lawmakers fail to realize is the more we as a people are made to follow laws that are intended to protect us from our own actions, the more it can hurt us in other ways. This law was enacted in haste, without thought of consequences, to replace parents and adults judgment, and gives way too much authority to the police. It invades all of our lives, young and old, and is going to do more harm than good. This law is unconstitutional and allows the police to profile due to age and/or appearance of age. Driving is a privilege and not a right, and this privilege can be taken away for abusing it; however, the laws that guide driving should not encumber our Constitutional rights. This law should be repealed before it does more harm than good. Kenneth E. Miebach Wantage