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From: bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Brian Behlendorf)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:31:28 -0700
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Subject: S.F. Panel Backs Easing of Cabaret Curfew Laws
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[SF Chronicle, 9/29/93]

by Dan Levy  [name sounds familiar.... -brian]

        In a victory for all-night dancers and party-goers, a San
Francisco supervisors' committee voted yesterday to amend the police
code to make it legal for people aged 18 to 21 to enter and be inside
dance halls and cabarets after 2 a.m.

        By a 2-to-1 vote, the Board of Supervisors' Health and Public
Safety Committee changed the rarely enforced police code section,
which currently allows only those over the age of 21 to be inside
"after hours" establishments after 2 a.m.  The motion now goes before
the full 11-member board.

	The hearing drew about 100 club-world denizens to the
supervisors' chambers for the second time in two weeks.  After a few
of them testified against the current law, Supervisor Terence
Hallinan, the author of the proposed amendment, asked to see a show of
support.  Like a classroom full of dutiful pupils, a mass of hands
went up.

	"I can vote, I can buy stock, but interestingly enough, I
can't dance," said Susan Kameny, a 21-year-old student who was
presumably speaking for her younger friends.  Referring to police
concerns that a change in the code would lead to more crime, Kameny
said, "I don't think it's fair to use young adults as scapegoats."

[GO SUSIE!  FEED THEM THOSE SOUND BYTES BABY!]

	San Francisco police Lieutenant Barry Johnson told the
supervisors that he saw "no social redeeming value" to dancing after 2
a.m.  He implied that officers from the department's Southern Station,
which handles the South of Market nightclub district, have a difficult
time dealing with "300 to 400 people roaming the streets, going from
club to club."

	In an interview after the hearing, Johnson said a large part
of the police concern stems from the station's own staffing problems.
South of Market has the city's highest concentration of cabarets and
nightclubs, but Southern Station does not have the officers to beef up
patrols on weekends and popular club nights, Johnson said.

	"We don't have enough people," he said.

	"If we're going to cover the area the way we're going to have
to now, we'll need more people."

[sheeya, right.]