(A) The curfew for minors within the city is being implemented for the following four primary reasons:
(1) To protect the public from illegal acts of minors committed after the curfew hour;
(2) To protect minors from improper influences that prevail after the curfew hour, including involvement with gangs;
(3) To protect minors from criminal activity that occurs after the curfew hour; and
(4) To help parents control their minor children.
(B) The City Council finds that residents and visitors have been harassed while traveling on city streets and sidewalks by groups of minors; that minors engaged in mimes while on the streets late in the evening; that minors have been enticed to join organized gangs and have been victimized by gangs late in the evening and that the Council believes that this curfew for minors will help lessen the aforementioned problems.
(Ord. 260, passed 7-13-00)