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TexasTowelie

(117,171 posts)
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 03:17 AM Sep 2021

Atlanta Mall to Require Youth to Be Accompanied After 3 p.m.

ATLANTA (AP) — A popular Atlanta shopping mall plans to start requiring visitors under 18 to be accompanied by a parent or another adult who's 21 or over after 3 p.m. each day.

The new “youth supervision policy” for Lenox Square will enter into effect Sept. 21, according to a news release Wednesday from Simon Property Group, which owns the mall.

“We are committed to providing a pleasant and family friendly shopping environment of all of our guests,” the release says.

The mall in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has been the site of two shootings this summer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Other malls in the area, including Atlantic Station in Midtown and the Mall at Stonecrest in south DeKalb County also require young people to have adult supervision during certain hours, the newspaper reported.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2021-09-08/atlanta-mall-to-require-youth-to-be-accompanied-after-3-pm

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Atlanta Mall to Require Youth to Be Accompanied After 3 p.m. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2021 OP
I generally support this. LuvLoogie Sep 2021 #1

LuvLoogie

(7,562 posts)
1. I generally support this.
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 09:12 AM
Sep 2021

You'd have to equitably check IDs, though. I like the concept, but it seems problematic to enforce without conflict. Maybe 5 or 6 pm makes more sense? Not a solution to conflict, but maybe more logistically relevant if kids need rides from their parents.

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