{"id":63064,"date":"2018-08-07T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-ca-sb-905-opponents-hold-l-a-press-event-no-good-can-come-from-serving-alcohol-until-4-a-m\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T23:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T03:08:02","slug":"los-opositores-a-la-medida-ca-sb-905-realizan-un-evento-de-prensa-en-los-angeles-servir-alcohol-hasta-las-4-de-la-manana-no-puede-traer-nada-bueno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/los-opositores-a-la-medida-ca-sb-905-realizan-un-evento-de-prensa-en-los-angeles-servir-alcohol-hasta-las-4-de-la-manana-no-puede-traer-nada-bueno\/","title":{"rendered":"CA SB 905 Opponents Hold L.A. Press Event &#8211; &#8220;No Good Can Come From Serving Alcohol Until 4 a.m.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN RAFAEL, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 7, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alcoholpolicyalliance.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA)<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alcoholjustice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice<\/a>, and Los Angeles City Councilmember <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.councilmemberpaulkoretz.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Koretz<\/span><\/a> hosted a press event at <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> City Hall yesterday to oppose SB 905 (Wiener) \u2013 the <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 a.m.<\/span> bar bill. Emceed by actor\/activist Kurtwood Smith, speakers representing groups and organizations throughout the state reported on the city and statewide public health and safety threats the bill would create by allowing a patchwork quilt of cities \u2013 including <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> &#8211; to extend alcohol sales to <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 a.m.<\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgf8d3left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgf8d3left\" title=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alcohol Justice logo.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>&#8220;While we want our local businesses to thrive, no good can come from serving alcohol until 4 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0If this passes we can expect more DUIs, more drunk driving injuries and more alcohol related deaths,&#8221;<\/i> stated Councilmember Koretz. <i>&#8220;No district is an island and it is outrageous to call this a local discretion bill when its impacts will spill over into adjacent jurisdictions that will be stuck with the very expensive public safety bill &#8211; the cost of life and death.\u00a0 For these reasons and more, I am opposed to SB 905. Because public safety should not be for sale.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The key message at the core of the protest was that if passed and signed into law by Governor Brown, SB 905 would launch a dangerous nine-city, five-year experiment that could expose over 76% of <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> population to increased alcohol-related harm. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Today we are here to speak with a loud, collective voice that residents of Los Angeles WILL NOT be lab rats in Senator <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Wiener&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 a.m.<\/span> bar bill experiment,&#8221; <\/i>said Kurtwood Smith, Actor and Activist. &#8220;<i>And neither will the residents of the 8 other cities and surrounding &#8220;splash zones&#8221; throughout the state that this bill threatens. Only a dumba** would value nightlife over all life and vote YES for this bill. <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> does not need Wiener&#8217;s dangerous nine-city, five-year experiment,&#8221; <\/i>he added.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We hope Senator Wiener and the rest of our state legislators finally hear us loudly, <span class=\"xn-location\">CALIFORNIA<\/span> COMMUNITIES DO <u>NOT<\/u> WANT A <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 A.M.<\/span> LAST CALL,&#8221;<\/i> stated\u00a0Brenda Villanueva, Prevention Coordinator, Pueblo y Salud, Member of CAPA. <i>&#8220;All the peer-reviewed science says that increases in hours of sale that are two hours or greater will lead to increases in excessive alcohol use and related problems. Assemblymember <span class=\"xn-person\">Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher<\/span>: Por favor, take a stand for public health over private profits and KILL THIS BILL.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> currently suffers over 10,500 alcohol-related deaths and <span class=\"xn-money\">$34 billion<\/span> in costs annually. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ots.ca.gov\/Media_and_Research\/Publications_and_Reports\/doc\/CA_OTS_2017_Annual_Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)<\/a> reported recently that fatal DUI is a <u>chronic, worsening problem<\/u> for the state. Between 2014 and 2016, alcohol-related crash deaths rose 21%. That number can only go up with two additional hours of alcohol consumption. Thus, the only benefit of selling alcohol <span class=\"xn-chron\">between 2 and 4 a.m.<\/span> will be greater profits to bar, restaurant, and club owners in the party zones the bill will create. While the public and all levels of government will be forced to continue to cover the costs of mitigating the harms that follow. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;In just one year \u2013 2016 &#8211; we saw a 16.2% surge in traffic fatalities with over 1000 people losing their lives in DUI related crashes,&#8221; <\/i>said Lynne Brown,\u00a0Program Manager\/Law Enforcement Liaison, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). <i>&#8220;Putting freshly impaired drivers on the road at 4 or <span class=\"xn-chron\">5 a.m.<\/span>, with commuters and carpoolers, highway workers and families will, based on data from areas who have adopted later service hours for alcohol, most certainly lead to more deaths on <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> roadways. For that reason, MADD California is opposed to SB 905.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The data most often referred to and consistently ignored or dismissed by Wiener &amp; his supporters comes from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) task force led by <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathan Fielding<\/span>, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.B.A, Distinguished Professor UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3712516\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force<\/a> found in a peer-reviewed, global meta-analysis that every 2-hour increase in last-call times results in greater vehicle crash injuries and E.R. admissions. (Hahn et al., 2010) Dr. Fielding stated, <i>&#8220;&#8230;I have no reason to believe that an increase in hours of sale anywhere in the U.S. would have different results.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It is known that there is no transportation on LA Metro and BART during late night hours and only minimal local bus service. And research shows that Uber will not save us.<\/i> <i>Car services will be prohibitively expensive for these &#8220;Night Owls&#8221; and will lead to more impaired driving,&#8221; <\/i>said <span class=\"xn-person\">Keith Nakata<\/span>, Co-Chair of The Mid City West Community Council, Planning and Land Use Committee. <i>&#8220;We demand that our state legislators and especially LA Assemblymembers Bloom, Nazarian, Calderon, Friedman and Carrillo, oppose this bill.\u00a0 We do not want the consequence of SB 905; it only enriches the alcohol industry and only hurts our communities.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I see the impact that the thousands of alcohol licenses have on our County. I know the data. I can say for certain that this bill is not good for <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles County<\/span>, and I doubt it will have anything but negative impacts for <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> other counties,&#8221; <\/i>stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Sarah Blanch<\/span>, Co-chair of the Los Angeles Drug &amp; Alcohol Policy Alliance (LADAPA). <i>&#8220;I go out in <span class=\"xn-location\">West Hollywood<\/span> a lot. I know the community. People there are concerned. The residents I know don&#8217;t want this. They don&#8217;t want more noise, they don&#8217;t want more drunkenness, they don&#8217;t want more fighting and drunk driving. Period. They don&#8217;t want it. Making alcohol available another two hours will only cost more in dollars and in pain for the problems it causes. We don&#8217;t need this.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In response to the author&#8217;s continued mischaracterization of SB 905 as a &#8216;local control&#8217; measure, there was consensus among opponents that there is no such thing as local control in alcohol policy and that the harm from one city&#8217;s decision to change last-call times will &#8220;splash&#8221; over to every surrounding community. SB 905, like three other failed <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 a.m.<\/span> bar bills over the past 15 years, will spread alcohol overconsumption, loss of life, injury, and nuisance across the state. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It is imperative to look at what a healthy and safe community looks like and how bars and trendy restaurants impact development and their role in increasing land values,&#8221; said <\/i><span class=\"xn-person\">Dina Cruz<\/span>, United Coalition Prevention Project East, Social Model Recovery Systems. &#8220;<i>This attack on a community leads to a lack of diversity in land use, displacement and ultimately homelessness. Communities dealing with gentrification such as Skid Row and Boyle Heights know too well that when trendy bars and restaurants begin to arrive we are the next to go. Longer access to booze is not what communities need to thrive \u2014 we need real affordable housing, public restrooms\/showers and open green spaces,&#8221; <\/i>she added.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Suckow<\/span>, Executive Director American Liver Foundation Pacific Coast Division California reminded everyone that DUIs are not the only issue.<i> &#8220;Recently a study came out showing that the number of 25- to 34-year-olds who died annually from alcohol-related liver disease nearly tripled between 1999 and 2016. You don&#8217;t get liver disease at such a young age unless you are drinking heavily and frequently. Extending bar closing times to <span class=\"xn-chron\">4:00 a.m.<\/span> will mean more young people dying in their prime due to this terrible disease. <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> already suffers more alcohol-related harm than any other state \u2013$37.5 billion annually.&#8221; \u00a0<\/i>He added.<i> &#8220;Please do not allow this dangerous nightlife experiment to produce more harm. We ask that SB 905 be rejected.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where the Governor&#8217;s Finance Department opinion will have great importance. There is no language in SB 905 for additional funding for a true &#8220;pilot study&#8221;, or for a definitive source of revenue for local enforcement or emergency services to deal with projected increases in alcohol-related violence and traffic crashes after <span class=\"xn-chron\">4 a.m.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><b>SB 905: REGISTERED OPPOSITION as of 8\/5<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Asian-American Drug Abuse Project, Inc. (AADAP)<br \/>ADAPT San Ramon Valley <br \/>Alcohol Justice <br \/>Alcohol Policy Panel of <span class=\"xn-location\">San Diego County<\/span><br \/>Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association<br \/>California Alcohol Policy Alliance<br \/>California Alliance for Retired Americans<br \/><span class=\"xn-org\">California College<\/span> and University Police Chiefs Association <br \/>California Council for Alcohol Problems <br \/>Cambodian Association of America<br \/>CASA for Healthy Neighborhoods<br \/>Center for Human Development<br \/>Center for Open Recovery<br \/>Cesar Chavez Commemorative Committee of San Fernando Valley<br \/>Coalition for Drug Free Escondido<br \/>Coalition to Prevent Alcohol-Related Harms in LA Metro(COPALM)<br \/>Coastal Communities Drug-Free Coalition<br \/>Community Alliance for Drug Free Youth (CADFY)<br \/>Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse <br \/>County Behavioral Health Directors Association of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span><br \/>County of <span class=\"xn-person\">Marin Board<\/span> of Supervisors<br \/>California Friday Night Live Partnership<br \/>Day One<br \/>Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Network of Southern CA<br \/>Health Officers Association of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span><br \/>Institute for Public Strategies<br \/>Los Angeles Drug and Alcohol Policy Alliance<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span> Police Protective League<br \/>Lutheran Office of Public Policy-California<br \/>Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc.<br \/>Mothers Against Drunk Driving<br \/>Mountain Communities Coalition Against Substance Abuse<br \/>National Asian Pacific Families Against Substance Abuse (NAPAFASA)<br \/>National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse <br \/>National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence <br \/>National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence \u2013 San Fernando Valley<br \/>North Coastal Prevention Coalition<br \/>National Liquor Law Enforcement Association <br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">One East Palo Alto<\/span><br \/>Pacoima Urban Village<br \/>PARTS <span class=\"xn-location\">Salinas<\/span><br \/>Partnership for Positive Pomona<br \/>Peace Officers Association of <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles County<\/span> (POALAC)<br \/>Project SAFER Educational Foundation <br \/>Pueblo y Salud, Inc.<br \/>Reach Out Against Drugs El Segunda<br \/>Rethinking Alcohol and other Drugs <br \/>San Diegans for Safe Neighborhoods <br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">San Diego<\/span> Police Chiefs&#8217; and Sheriff&#8217;s Association<br \/>San Marcos Prevention Coalition<br \/>SF Prevention Coalition<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">Sonoma County<\/span> Board of Supervisors<br \/>Tarzana Treatment Centers<br \/>The Wall Las Memorias Project<br \/>United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP)<br \/>United Neighborhoods for <span class=\"xn-location\">Los Angeles<\/span><br \/>Wellness &amp; Prevention CenterSan Clemente <br \/>West County Alcohol &amp; Marijuana Prescription Drug Coalition (AMPD)<br \/>West Hollywood Project<br \/>Westside Impact Coalition<br \/>Youth Leadership Institute (YLI)<br \/>Thousands of letters from the public <\/p>\n<p>For More Information go to: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholpolicyalliance.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/alcoholpolicyalliance.org\/<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Take Action here: <\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/stop-4am\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>https:\/\/alcoholjustice.org\/stop-4am<\/b><\/a><b><i> to tell the Assembly Appropriations <br \/>Committee to STOP SB 905. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT: <br \/><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Scippa<\/span> 415 548-0492<br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Jorge Castillo<\/span> 213 840-3336 <br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Alison Simard<\/span> 213-473-7467<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/147418\/alcohol_justice_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Alcohol Justice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN RAFAEL, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 7, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alcoholpolicyalliance.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA)<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alcoholjustice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcohol Justice<\/a>, and Los Angeles City Councilmember <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.councilmemberpaulkoretz.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Koretz<\/span><\/a> hosted a press event at <span class=\"xn-location\">Los&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}