Here are the details of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new curfew rules for youths – Chicago Tribune

While a City Council committee on Friday permitted Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s curfew measure creating larger restrictions for when minors could be outdoors in Chicago, Lightfoot had beforehand signed an government order with the identical restrictions.

Chicago’s Law Department says these new rules are in impact now resulting from the government order being signed Tuesday, even whereas the identical curfew rules are up for a vote early subsequent week in the full council.

The dialogue over amending the rules governing when minors could be outdoors comes after 16-year-old Seandell Holliday was shot May 14 close to The Bean in Millennium Park, allegedly by a 17-year-old. Chicago police mentioned the capturing occurred throughout an altercation when massive teams of younger folks had gathered at the downtown park in a scene that turned chaotic.

Under the government order:

Minors between 12 and 17 years of age are not allowed outdoors after 10 p.m. till 6 a.m. the following day for all days of the week. There is not any loosening of the curfew hours for Friday or Saturday nights.

The regulation stays unchanged for minors youthful than 12. They are not allowed out after 8:30 p.m. on any Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday till 6 a.m. the following day. Those underneath 12 are allowed to remain out till 9 p.m. on Fridays or Saturdays till 6 a.m. the following day.

The proposed ordinance modification that’s up for a City Council vote has the identical restrictions.

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The metropolis’s curfew ordinance, in impact since 1992, is outdated by Lightfoot’s government order, which, in response to verbiage in the order, was enacted underneath an “emergency” of a rise in “crimes committed by minors.”

The ordinance has the following rules:

Minors between 12 and 16 are not allowed outdoors after 10 p.m. on any Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday till 6 a.m. the following day. For Friday or Saturday night time, the curfew is from 11 p.m. to six a.m.

Minors youthful than 12 are not allowed out after 8:30 p.m. on any Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday till 6 a.m. the following day. Those underneath 12 are allowed to remain out till 9 p.m. on any Friday or Saturday till 6 a.m. the following day.

The mayor’s government order — and the ordinance set to be voted on by the full council — grants exceptions for youths attending “ticketed or sponsored events” so long as they’ll show their attendance with a ticket stub or wristband. The organizer have to be in “full compliance” and “in good standing” with the metropolis.

Existing exceptions for minors being out after curfew stay. That contains in the event that they’re accompanied by or doing an errand for a guardian or guardian, attending an occasion supervised by adults and sponsored by an official group, standing on the sidewalk outdoors their house or if it’s an emergency. Minors are additionally exempted in the event that they’re exercising their First Amendment rights, corresponding to attending a protest.

In addition, minors are additionally exempted from the curfew in the event that they are in a motorized vehicle touring on interstate roads or are married or emancipated.

During Friday’s committee listening to, Chicago police Lt. Michael Kapustianyk mentioned officers have been making “investigatory” stops upon seeing somebody who seems to be a minor. If the individual is certainly a minor — outlined by the government order as 17 or youthful — and doesn’t have a legitimate motive to be out, the police could take “protective custody” of them till a guardian, guardian or a “responsible adult” could be situated.

He mentioned officers could use their discretion about when to take a minor into protecting custody, however the aim is “voluntary compliance.” The definition of a “responsible adult” contains prolonged household or neighbors that the guardian “has given the authority to take responsibility for the child for the night,” Kapustianyk mentioned.

Curfew violations that attain that stage are documented, however Chicago police coverage is to not arrest or cost kids simply for violating the curfew, Kapustianyk added. Any citations can be given to the guardian, who could also be summoned to an administration listening to if their youngster has violated curfew three or extra instances inside the final year.

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