To serve alcohol in Kansas City, you need a liquor card. The public safety committee is considering a new proposed ordinance that would change that, but some agencies are concerned.
The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault, or MOCSA, is speaking out. Victoria Pickering, Director of Advocacy for MOCSA, said, “The goal is to prevent individuals who have a history of committing sexual offenses from being able to work with alcohol which is the number one drug that’s used to facilitate sexual assault.” Full Article
Worried about Sex Offenders serving alcohol?
Abolish the registry.
There will immediately be zero Sex Offenders serving alcohol.
How often does this pattern need to be posted for it to click?
The registry is a train wreck, dumpster fire of a policy and need to be reversed, immediately and irrevocably, forever. The longer I am on it, the less appropriate it feels.
Any policy that names and shames anyone who commits a crime, no matter how heinous, misses the mark that members of humankind are fully capable of reflection, remorse and change.
O_M_G! What next? Oh wait, I know:
Because alcohol is “…. the number one drug that’s used to facilitate sexual assault”, those previously convicted of a sexual offense also cannot work or be present at any establishment that serves or sells alcohol (including grocery store, convenience stores, restaurants, and bars)! 🤡🤪
(I imagine this “restriction” will be trending after the accusations against SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh.)
My god whats next? Just when I thought just maybe we had seen it all…
This Victoria Peckering must be a real dingbat for coming up with such a ridiculous idea a this ! People like her shouldn’t be aloud to be the head of anything.
When are city’s and munisapalities, going to get it, ordinances are NOT LAWS, and they certainly are NOT BINDING PUBLIC LAWS. Ordinances ONLY to employees and employers of said city and or munisapalities. The ONLY ones allowed to pass so called laws are state legislatures. PERIOD.
I’m a bit confused. The headline screams about RCs not being allowed to serve liquor, but nowhere in the article is that actually mentioned as being proposed. If anything, the article talks contrary to such an event. The hair-on-fire MOCSA is obvious about their agenda, but the other quotes and statements are rather equivocal. I suspect a bad editing job chopped out some key pieces.
The answer to the whole ting is staring you right in the face:
Each such city and village shall have
power to adopt resolutions and ordinances relating to its municipal concerns, property and government,
SUBJECT TO THE CONSTITUTION and law.
So, to WHOM does the state constitution delegate the power to make binding public law, to ONLY the legislature or to the legislature AND municipalities and counties? ONLY the legislature, right? So, to whom then can the muni or county apply their ordinances IF they constitutionally CANNOT create binding public law?
Man I can’t wait for SCOTUS to get a real case hopefully challenging the registry on the issues I’ve brought forth. They are going to be like, are you kidding me, and you people have some kind of skewed vision that is so bad ypu actually think these laws are constitutional. I really think they are going to ream whomever tries to defend these laws like that one court did where they told the attorney they need to go read the constitution laughing as the left the bench. We are living in the frigging Twilight Zone or a Doctor Who script…
After my conviction, bartending was the only job I could get. It worked out well until the state added me on to the public website years later. Once I was posted on the internet, the drunk patrons made sure to make my life miserable. And most bartenders are too busy serving drinks to get the opportunity to take advantage of anyone. They should be more concerned about everyone else that is drunk in the bar.
This is nothing but a blatant attack on people on the registry, pure discrimination of a minority group. So can people on the registry go in to bars and drink? But they can’t get a job serving. Ok, got it.