Citizens Against Daytime Curfew

Why we oppose the daytime curfew:

• Truant chidren can already be picked up by police and taken back to school.

• Truant children are already fined $500 for each truancy offense. Do struggling families need an additional $500 fine that goes to the City of Dallas general fund, not to programs for troubled youth?

• Business owners and employees may be fined up to $500 if they allow children to remain on their premises between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on days DISD is in session.

• Conviction of a child, parent or business creates a criminal record.

• Of all daytime burglary arrests, more than 82% are adults - fewer than 18% are children under 17. Why criminalize so many children, parents, and business people?

• The police have said if a daytime curfew is imposed they plan to continue picking up children and returning them to the same place they currently take them - to DISD. They also said they pick up all the children they can find currently. If they already pick up all they can find, how does this help take more truants off the street? The only difference this curfew will make is to add $500 to the city general fund. This is a tax on the poor and struggling families in Dallas and does nothing new to fight crime or truancy.

This is the link to donate funds to support CADDC in getting the Daytime Curfew denied!