California IN BRIEF : SANTA ANA : Kissing Incident Apology Falls Short

Claiming that bussing is a constitutionally protected right, a Santa Ana grandmother rejected an apology from a condominium association that said it had mistakenly cited her for “kissing and doing bad things for an hour” in a parked car. Helen (Kim) Garrett, 51, said she will pursue legal action unless the Townsquare Owners Assn. pays unspecified damages for embarrassing her and acknowledges that it has no right to punish or threaten anyone for kissing in a car in a common area of the housing complex. In an apology issued Wednesday, an attorney for the condo association said that the violation for which Garrett had been accused involved a girl of about 17 and a man of about 21. The mix-up apparently occurred, the attorney said, because the address the girl gave the doorman who reported the incident was the same as Garrett’s.