Just a week after announcing she's pregnant with her second child, Britney Spears is catching flak again for how she's raising her first one. And just like the last time, the concerns involve a car seat.

The singer was photographed driving her Mini Cooper convertible in Malibu, California, with 8-month-old Sean Preston strapped in a car seat that faced forward in the backseat. That account prompted New York Post and New York's Daily News to put the photo on their front pages with the kindred headlines "Oops, She Did It Again" and "Oops, Britney Does It Again."

After Spears was photographed in early February driving with the infant in her lap (see "Child Welfare Officials Visit Britney Spears Over Sean Preston Injury"), a car seat would seem to be an improvement. But the tabloids insist Spears should've had Sean Preston facing the other direction, as child-safety advocates recommend parents do until the child is 1 year old.

California Highway Patrol spokesperson Tom Marshall told reporters that while police prefer to see a child's head face backward, to avoid head-on injuries and whiplash, they're not going to cite Spears for violating Section 27360 of the California Vehicle Code. Marshall said the police didn't witness the incident and the state code doesn't specify rear-facing seats, only that child-safety seats must comply with the federal standard.

Spears' camp insists that much ado is being made out of nothing. "There is no law in California requiring rear-facing seats," Spears' lawyer Martin Singer said. "In fact, there are only 10 states that require a child to be in a rear-facing car seat, and in two of those states, it is not required if the infant is more than 20 pounds. Britney's son Sean weighs over 20 pounds. As such, Britney Spears was in total compliance with California law with the forward-facing child-safety seat with the baby strapped in properly in the back of the car."

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has already investigated Spears twice this year, once for the prior lack of a car seat and then, two months later, when her son fell from his high chair. After the first car-seat incident, the singer blamed the paparazzi.