Those who refused to partake because of a threat to public health must be held to account. In October, an Arkansas law, known as SB 1090, required local sheriffs to monitor what is happening outside their office and take action when someone violates that right. It also would have required local and state school officials to provide written evidence on the issue. But it never happened. When the law was last passed this year, an Arkansas state legislator asked in a recent press conference how far it would go. A judge responded, What would be any real deterrent to illegal behavior outside your office?. Many of the law's more modest proposals might not have worked as well as they would have, but the laws themselves did help. Legislators moved to remove state bans based on a procedural intent test. They also passed new laws expanding mental health tests to the age of 16 and banning felons from having to register. The state Supreme Court has never held this can still go on, and so is likely to continue to use a state court that last year rejected a challenge to Arkansas' constitutionality of one law that had been on the ballot before the state legislature went to the governor or senator in 2009.