You are correct.

Out late studying? On a date? It's summer time and being out late at night spontaniously is part of the teen culture? Pick your reason.

Sure, but after 11pm on weeknights?

If you're out on a date seeing a movie and it goes past 11pm, you're now violating the curfew?

If a student has a big test the next morning and relatively light load the rest of the day in their classes, staying up at a friends house til midnight or even later might be a great study strategy.

I can imagine some reasons.

11pm is late for a 17 year old during summertime? Seriously? This legislation was nutso - not surprising it failed. I don't need a big-brother government telling people what time they're allowed out of their house.

jag, the answer is yes in my opinion. I will not allow my son (when he grows up) to hang out on the street after 11pm, even during the summer time. I will be OK if he is at someone's house studying, hangout, or do whatever, but not on the street. If he goes to see a late movie, I will be more than happy to drop him off and pick him up afterwards, just like a responsible parent will do.

Sheng, so you're fine with the idea of law enforcement harassing your son for doing nothing other than walking home from a neighbor's house after studying or standing in front of a movie theater, waiting for you to pick him up?? I find that shocking.

I'm not even going to go into how insulting and naive your comment is about how any "responsible parent" would drive their kid back and forth everywhere. Obviously, not everyone A. has a parent, B. has a parent who has nothing more important to do (e.g. working) than being a personal chauffeur and escort for a teen who's otherwise perfectly capable of getting home on their own (if your son has a mental disability or something, obviously that's a different situation). Ultimately, you should raise your kid how you want and don't let him stay out after dark if that's what you think is healthy for him. But giving police the power to harass everyone else based on how old they look? I would lose all respect for a county council that thinks that is anywhere near acceptable in this country.

jag, not sure why you single out the word "parent". For what it's worth, parents, legal guardians, friends' parents, neighbors or whatever you call it...the point is a responsible adult can always provide rides. And making sure their teenagers are safe should be their top priority.

Also your neighborhood may be safe enough for your son to walk from a neighbor's house (whether or not he has any mental problems, i hope he doesn't) after 11pm, but definitely not in my neighborhood.

Most of the "responible" parents of teenagers are against the curfew as well. A responsible parent will teach their child how to be responsible for themselves and then be able to trust them to be out at night. The point is that each individual parent should be able to do the parenting for their child, not have the police criticize their desicions harrass their children for it. (obviously this isn't the case when there's incapable parents but there's a difference between somebody not being able to take care of their child and different parents having different parenting strategies.

Dear Sir,

Your post sounds like a lot of racial bull manure to me.

Dear jnrentz1,

That was the point. It was both mockery of the previous comment and a pointed look at the inevitable racial profiling that would happen due to this bill.

Does the bill curfew everyone of all ages?

If you've read the articles and interviews given by montgomery country polive they say they're out looking for the "bad kids" instead of the ones on a date/out to eat/at a movie. How would they tell the "good kid" from the "bad kid"? Racial profiling.

So you're saying the Police are using "bad kids" and "good kids" as code words for a specific race group?

I think you'd have to have some evidence to back that up. I can swallow that it might be provable once the law is passed by looking at enforcement numbers, but until it is in effect it seems like a stretch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-cop-on-curfews-how-we-can-tell-whos-a-bad-kid/2011/07/29/gIQAmUoAxI_story.html

"bad kids" vs. "good kids"

Times have changed. I understand the idea of old family values but do you really expect all teens to want to spend every night with their parents? And consider the summer time when there is no studying to be done and there are activities that go later into the night. I would be curious to know whether you have children of the age that ould be affected and whether you've asked their opinion.

Read what you wrote, TBerm, I'm sure you'll realize it nonsensical on a whole host of levels (at least nonsensical to anyone not named Mao or Stalin). I'm for due process too - guess I shouldn't call the police if a criminal found innocent tries to break into my home? "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Well maybe its because there are only two races, im not going to mention any names concerned here causing the crime which invokes interest in a curfew bill.