In La Jolla, San Diego there is beach called 'Casa Beach' which has become a tourist attraction due to the number of seals that use the beach. It has become a source of controversy, due to decisions to remove the seals, which were then overturned, then subsequent proposals to protect the seals and proposals to turn it into a sanctuary.
The San Diego Police Department says that police have responded to "numerous calls for service at Children's Pool involving alleged incidents of threatened assault and intimidation" between seal advocates, swimmers and divers, and that in some cases citations have been issued or people taken into custody. A La Jolla man was indicted for sending e-mailed death threats to a seal advocate who was videotaping interactions between divers and seals, and to the Animal Protection and Rescue League.
