Little Rock City Directors Brad Cazort and Gene Fortson made fact finding visits to all of Little Rock’s 5 a.m. Clubs this past week.
Cazort and Fortson, accompanied by several dancers from Paper Moon, arrived at Midtown Billards at around 4:30 a.m. this past Saturday.
City Director Joan Adcock has introduced an ordinance before the board that would close all establishments at 2 a.m. Industry representatives worked with City Manager Bruce Moore to present a different ordinance that wouldn’t change the hours, but would require the clubs to keep the number of off-duty police officers they have now and give the police chief authority to require more if there are problems at a particular club.
Cazort stated that "we couldn't get that old -censored- Adcock to come along to see for herself what is happening at this time of day at these places".
Neither Cazort nor Fortson were ready to say whether they support Adcock’s recommendation to close the clubs at 2 a.m. or whether they will have a counterproposal to offer in August. They are still going over their research, they said. But Fortson did have a general takeaway. “What this trip confirmed to me is I ain't dead yet” he said.
Cazort and Fortson, accompanied by several dancers from Paper Moon, arrived at Midtown Billards at around 4:30 a.m. this past Saturday.
City Director Joan Adcock has introduced an ordinance before the board that would close all establishments at 2 a.m. Industry representatives worked with City Manager Bruce Moore to present a different ordinance that wouldn’t change the hours, but would require the clubs to keep the number of off-duty police officers they have now and give the police chief authority to require more if there are problems at a particular club.
Cazort stated that "we couldn't get that old -censored- Adcock to come along to see for herself what is happening at this time of day at these places".
Neither Cazort nor Fortson were ready to say whether they support Adcock’s recommendation to close the clubs at 2 a.m. or whether they will have a counterproposal to offer in August. They are still going over their research, they said. But Fortson did have a general takeaway. “What this trip confirmed to me is I ain't dead yet” he said.
