Thus far, there haven’t been any teen takeover incidents in Orland Park, but village officials are taking steps to thwart the possibility of it happening in their community.
According to village officials, DuPage County and some north suburbs are experiencing problems with takeovers and violence and Orland Park is changing some of the current codes in its books to try to prevent that. The changes include warnings to parents that they, too, could be punished for their children’s actions.
“We now have the code in place before the events happen instead of scrambling to try to fit a resolution or a response to an incident into existing codes that didn’t think this through,” Orland Park Mayor James Dodge said during the village’s Oct. 5 Committee of the Whole meeting before the board vote. “I’m pretty sure we are constantly monitoring for these things, and we now have some enabling ordinances that include parental responsibility and we’re going to step up our communication to Orland Park…