BATON ROUGE – The East Baton Rouge Metro Council voted on July 23rd to approve a new ordinance that looks to curb an uptick in liquor sales to those under the age of 21.
District 9 Councilman Dwight Hudson said the Alcohol Board of Control came to him with the idea after it was found that almost half of the businesses in the parish were not compliant with it.
“At our last ABC meeting, it was charted the trend forty-two percent — that’s a pretty bad rate for something we really should see in the single digits,” Hudson said…