Curfew sweep nets seven tickets
JANESVILLE — Officers ticketed seven young people in the Janesville Police Department’s first curfew sweep of the year.
Police checked for curfew violations from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
The department will assign officers to specifically address curfew violations at various times over the summer.
Janesville’s curfew requires people 16 and younger to be off the street and school grounds, out of parks and entertainment establishments and absent from public or vacant buildings between 11 p.m. through 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and between midnight through 5 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Violators face $50 fines or community service as penalties.
The ordinance contains several exceptions, including responding to an emergency, traveling directly between home and work or school, being at work, performing an errand directed by a parent or guardian and attending a supervised school, religious or recreational activity.
Jun 13, 2008 at 8:30 a.m.
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the reason why the curfew sweep started last weekend was because that was the first weekend kids were out of school. They did not ignore the problem before it just seems not to be as big of a problem when kids are in school.
Jun 13, 2008 at 5:17 a.m.
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The police designated several officers to focus mainly on curfew violations during that weekend. That doesn’t mean all other officers not so designated ignore curfew violations or that the designated officers will ignore other violation except curfew. They write curfew tickets all year. The "sweep" as the paper calls it was done the first weekend after school let out for the summer which is when more kids are likely to violate curfew. It's a message to the kids don't violate the curfew ordinance. Do u think that the only time officers write seatbelt tickets is when it is the “click-it-or ticket campaign? Think it through a little bit before commenting.
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:37 p.m.
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The first curfew sweep of the year is conducted on June 12th? If a law is only going to be enforced every six months,it has no teeth. Hit and miss enforcement of any kind does little more than to challenge the general population to see how far they can push the law. Law enforcement needs to quit playing the political spin on law and start enforcing all laws at all times as they are written. If you see an officer doing anything but enforcing the law,which is their job,they are not doing what they were hired to do.
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