The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) today announced it will have agents out working to keep the public safe through enforcement of alcoholic beverage laws on Labor Day weekend. ABC Agents will visit both ABC licensed businesses, some community events and large venues to prevent disorderly activity and reduce alcohol service to obviously intoxicated patrons and persons under 21 years-old.
ABC reminds anyone of legal drinking age to help reduce DUI’s by designating a non-drinking driver before any celebrations where alcohol is involved. Along with enforcement efforts, ABC relies on all licensees to follow the law.
“Improving overall safety in communities is a goal of the ABC,” says ABC Director Jacob Appelsmith. “In addition to an increased law enforcement presence, citizens can do their part to keep everyone safe by planning to take alternative transportation to get home safely following celebrations involving alcohol.”
The California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) remind anyone who is hosting a party to offer nonalcoholic drinks for designated sober drivers and monitor who is drinking. See people leaving who have been drinking? Check how they are getting home. Offer to let them stay the night if a sober driver is not available to take them home.
Another government malady that I’m sure costs us far more than it returns. And I bet they’re getting overtime.
I do not drink, in fact, I never drank until I got to college when beer became my fav beverage. Sadly, I developed an allergic reaction to the brew and had to give it up. Wine made me sick and hard liquor was too hard. Over the years I have concluded that alcohol is the nation’s worst health problem and I can really understand the thinking behind prohibition which was certainly an extreme way to solve the problem. Alcohol causes more health problems and more tragedies than anything else. How many people have been killed by drunk drivers? Yet, congress is reluctant to touch the alcohol industry because they get so much money from them and that’s the real problem with our so-called democratic system – money – it’s all about money and the common person is left out in the cold because big bucks drives this system and I guess you can say that democracy has been turned upside down.
So, you drank until it made you feel bad, and then decided that no one should be allowed to drink? You seem to be kind of full of yourself. And Congress can’t prohibit alcohol without first repealing the 21st Amendment.
What if they were, like, out all the time? You know, doing their job? That would be crazy!
What if California has too many agencies, with too much power, costing too much money and returning diddly-squat of use to me, a working, home owning citizen? Would THAT be crazy? 🤪
Is that anything like giving immature college freshmen living away from home a no limit credit card ? ? ?
CA voters, electing representation without supervision.
This agency is ridiculous and outdated. Their sole job is to chase around teenagers who are trying to buy beer under age? I bet no one every looked at an ABC officer and said wow you sure are hardworking and protecting our public. They concoct “stings” using nerdy teenagers trying to entrap citizens going normally about their day.
Yor are completely clueless. They do a lot. Do some research before making assumptions and sounding like an ass. I speak as someone who has worked with ABC agents and also as someone who has lost a loved one to a drunk driver.
I remember some years ago reading an article that the State ABC only had 1 Agent to cover hundreds of square miles each. This was not during any State Fiscal Crisis…
Not knowing if this has changed, I wonder how this plan will be effective?