Youngstown police and council seek to toughen curfew law
YOUNGSTOWN
With the school year coming to an end, police plan to crack down on minors — and their parents and guardians — for those violating the city’s curfew law.
Police Chief Rod Foley told city council’s safety committee members today that he supports legislation, sponsored by Councilman John R. Swierz, D-7th, to increase the fines for those who break the city curfew.
“We also want to make sure the parents are held responsible,” Foley said.
The city law makes it a minor misdemeanor for children 17 years of age and younger to be on streets and sidewalks between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. The parents and guardians of those kids can also be charged.
The first offense would remain a minor misdemeanor. The second offense would also be a minor misdemeanor, but the mandatory fine would be $150. A typical fine currently is $25 to $50.
The third and subsequent offenses would be a fourth-degree misdemeanor, with violators facing a fine of up to $250.
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Comments
Come on. These problem kids are killing each other. I don't think that a stiffer curfew law is going to help. If that's the best solution they can come up with it is gonna be a long summer.
Unfortunately, I have to agree.
what are you going to do---chase them through the backyards ?
Yeah I'm sure that us really going to make a difference. ¡NOT! Those monsters are all over the place at night. The cops drive past them without even noticing!
Yes we are still going to have crime, but this is made to prevent it from happening. If a police car drives down a street and sees four sixteen year old kids outside at 11:30, he can then remove them from the street and keep them from causing something. Thats the point. The other is what are these kids doing out that late anyway?
This law gives license to the cops to spend a whole lot of "safe time" on the job chasing after teens when the real criminals--the career criminals-- are breaking all the laws with no one hot on their trails.
Martial Law
Half of these kids don't know who their daddy is and their mom wants to be their friend instead of being mom. This is a flippin joke!!
We are stupid people here in Y-Town
Single Mothers cannot watch their children because they are working, or in some cases just are not interested.