Nobody should be able to regulate adult entertainment anywhere! Let's stop this from happening! Save these business' by signing AGAINST a proposed ban on lapdancing in Sacramento county! There are way worse things going on in the world, than to go bust girls doing dances! It's a waste of time and is truly a pathetic attempt by Sacramento officials.

If there are problems in town, or at certain establishments, then go after the criminals who are causing harm. Don't go after single mothers, or the other employees of these clubs who rely on these strip clubs to keep food on the table for their families.

Especially at a time when everyone out there is so desperate for work and are barely surviving!



SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento's Sheriff's Department is calling for a ban on lap dancing, but only for two adult bars the county has been battling for years over zoning issues.

The lap dancing ban being proposed is for The Body Shop and The Embers, both bars on Auburn Boulevard north of Madison Avenue. The bars used to feature topless dancers but the women now dance in their bikinis after losing a lawsuit by the county last year.

Now, county administrators want lap dancing banned there, although lap dancing at all-nude "juice bars" in other parts of the county would still be allowed because they're properly zoned in industrial areas.

"Instead of acting with eminent domain or paying the clubs to go away if they don't want them there, they're trying to regulate them out of business, force them out of business by hurting them financially," said George Mull, the attorney for owners of the two bars in question. "I think it's almost comical, and I think for the sheriff's to make up reasons is almost criminal."

"The physical nature of the lap dance creates an unsavory element, if you will. I mean, it attracts an unsavory element that leads to prostitution, loitering around these businesses," counters Sgt. Tim Curran, spokesman for the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. "It becomes a quality of life issue for the neighboring businesses and the neighborhoods surrounding those businesses as well."

In a report prepared for county supervisors to consider the ban next Tuesday, the sheriff's department says in the past three years, 422 calls for service have been generated within 1,000 feet of one of the bars. There are no specifics, however, over what kind of calls or exactly what locations were involved.

"I've lived right off Auburn and Manzanita for like four years now," said one neighbor, Jennifer Clark. "All the crimes are coming from people over in the neighborhoods and not from there. The girls are just trying to make their money so they shouldn't shut them down. Just let them be."

"Wow, that's crazy. I think it's absolutely ridiculous," said another neighbor, Anna Narsaiq. "I think they should just leave those people alone and if they don't like it, they shouldn't;t go in there."

Curran said the department is simply trying to maintain a quality of life in the area. "People have come to us and asked for assistance so we're responding to that. There have been increased calls for service. The time that is taken up by patrol, resources to respond to those types of calls in these establishments is significant."

"There's no hands touching the customers or customers touching the girls, not at all," said Mull. He also said in a time of high unemployment and fewer dollars flowing into government coffers, the lap dance ban makes no sense. If the bars have to close down, he said 130 jobs will be lost.

"It basically would hurt the girls financially. They make almost all of their money off of lap dances. A lot of them are single mothers, a lot of them are bringing home the only money for themselves and for their children," said Mull. As for government revenue, "It's tax base, especially the sales tax on liquor. So you lost that."

The other question Mull raises is whether or not a law enforcement department struggling financially and cutting special crime-fighting teams should be concerned with lap dancing inside an adults-only club. Curran said enforcement would be done by special compliance units which already routinely check bars and that there's no impact on patrol.

"I would hope that they'd respond to burglaries and other things more important than having them sit around watching dancers," said Mull.

The Sacramento Board of Supervisors hears the first reading of the proposed lap dancing ban next Tuesday.

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