the only issue there Wyrm is the contract. The contract says that KE will enforce UCAS law through out the city. So they are stuck with all those laws that make law enforcement difficult (freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, etc). The only person that can override those laws is the governor with a "state of emergency" address... but those are limited in time (can not be sustained indefinitely).
In short, regardless of how much KE wants the "rules" changed, they can't just change them willy-nilly, in fact they have no control over the laws at all! They simply enforce them.
Ah, an innocent. So rare these days.
Now, just to give you some broad strokes, using the USA's
theoretical governmental structure, we have Legislative Branch (Congress) passing laws, the Executive Branch (the various Departments, culminating in the Office of the President) enforcing those laws, and the Judicial Branch (Federal Judges, culminating in the US Supreme Court) adjudicating possible violations of those laws. What
happens is that if there is a law that the People oppose and bring suit against, the Supreme Court can rule unconstitutional and negate, or if the President opposes (but his veto is overriden) a law, he can choose how vigorously,
if at all, to enforce it. This happens right up to and including the Constitution and the Amendments itself.
During Prohibition, beat cops stood around nodding while watching street speeches and sales of ingredients for 'health remedies' that gave specific 'advice on how to make sure you don't accidentally make bathtub gin', when they
knew it was exactly the opposite - letter of the law followed, spirit of the law violated left and right and in front of their face, in part because they were making bathtub gin themselves. There are currently
so many laws, rules, and regulations that many of them are simply ignored, because you'd need a supercomputer to be able to figure out how many were being violated within your vision just driving down the street. But if a Police Chief, or District Attourney, or Mayor, or Governor is wanting to look 'strict on X', then X gets really cracked down on.
So it would be - should be, and probably is, at least in most games - in SR. However, consider that all those laws are
still on the books. KE doesn't
need to change the rules - they only need to decide which ones they want to
really enforce. And if they wanted to - since they
are contractually obliged to enforce
all the laws - they could turn whatever public zone they have an enforcement contract for into an uncomfortable place to exist indeed.
Just in Seattle, for example: Spitting on a bus? Ticket. A woman sitting on a man’s lap on a bus or train without placing a pillow between them? Automatic six-month jail term. Up in Everett? It's against the law to
feed the ducks.So it isn't a matter of being restricted; it's a matter of whether or not KE wants to be 100% total dicks. They
can find the laws that allow them. And even just normally, hell, jaywalking is a ticketable offense ...