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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to lobby for changes to Colorado nudity laws, reports ABC News in Denver. The current law requires that people cited for indecent exposure must register as sex offenders, a penalty the ACLU calls "unusually harsh." "We are very concerned about the way in which the Colorado sex-offender registry is set up, resulting in sex-offender status for these kinds of activities," says Judd Golden of the Boulder, CO, chapter of the ACLU. The liberal city of Boulder has always had a streak of nudism running through it, but last fall, the 10th annual Nude Pumpkin Run, in which participants put carved pumpkins on their heads and run naked through the streets, resulted in a number of arrests for indecent exposure. "Most people would say people running down the mall with pumpkins on their heads may not be somebody who is at risk of becoming a sex offender in the future," said Stan Garnett, who became Boulder County's district attorney after the controversial arrests. The ACLU will host a public forum Tuesday called "Naked in Boulder," where residents can discuss whether nude offenders should be treated as "pranksters and protesters, or criminals and sex offenders."

You can view the 2008 Nude Pumpkin Run after the jump. Please note the video features nudity.