Nothing new...In CA ya have to have to register and get a government, “Adventure Pass” to walk in the forest.
This is not a government of laws, it is a government subject to the whims of only one or a few people.
Laws are subject to review and a question of whether it is to be applied arbitrarily and blindly, or whether it is tempered by reason and circumstances.
There is the spirit of the law, and there is the letter of the law, two quite disparate characteristics.