Caltrans studies ruling on Minutemen sign





Group awaits permit to clean up along I-5
By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

July 1, 2008

Caltrans officials are reviewing a federal judge's decision ordering it to reinstate an Adopt-A-Highway permit for the San Diego Minutemen to conduct highway shoulder cleanups on Interstate 5 next to the Border Patrol's San Clemente checkpoint.
A spokesman for Caltrans did not say yesterday whether an appeal is being considered, only that legal counsel is reviewing the judge's decision today and will be discussing it this week with Caltrans Director Will Kempton.



Meanwhile, the anti-illegal immigration activists, who sued the transportation agency alleging free-speech discrimination in February over the removal of their Adopt-A-Highway sign and their reassignment to another location, are awaiting permission to schedule cleanups along the two-mile stretch of northbound I-5 it had adopted.
“We can't do a cleanup unless we have a permit to encroach upon the freeway,â€