facts go here:
"In addition to illegal eviction notices, the managers of College Manor Apartments created and posted an illegal curfew for both children and adults, and used a dog to enforce the law."
The only legal curfew in Fresno is 10 p.m. for children under the age of 18.
http://www.piconetwork.org/news/clergy-help-family-overturn-illegal-eviction-in-fresno.html
In response to growing public concern about juvenile crime and violence more limiting curfews are being put into effect
"By reducing the number of youths on the street during certain hours, curfews are assumed to lesson the number of circumstances in which youth crime can occur. It is also assumed that curfews reduce youth crime by deterring youths from being on the streets at certain hours out of fear of being arrested"
It is hypothesized that if strict curfews are put into effect:
- communities will experience lower overall, and serious crime arrests, than jurisdictions
- will reduce adult crime trends in the long run
http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/curfew/curfew.html
Many cities have imposed youth curfews in recent years. A 1995 survey by The U.S. Conference of Mayors found that 272 cities, 70 percent of those surveyed, had a nighttime curfew. Fifty-seven percent of these cities considered their curfew effective.
http://www.usmayors.org/publications/curfew.htm
"A 1997 survey of 347 municipalities by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that 80 percent had a nighttime youth curfew, up from 70 percent two years earlier. In almost half of those cities, the curfews had been imposed within the previous 10 years.
In 1994, Monrovia adopted a daytime curfew, aimed at controlling truancy as well as juvenile crime, and many other cities have followed its lead. Some towns--about 20 percent of those surveyed by the Conference of Mayors--have curfews in both the day and the evening, leaving only a narrow window of time in which young people can wander without fear of the local gendarmes. In those places, teens have to consider the time of day carefully before engaging in as innocent an activity as walking the family dog."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/31171.html
