If they’re under 16 and unaccompanied, children living in unincorporated Manatee County are now subject to a curfew.
Commissioners voted 5-2 to approve the measure at the Nov. 19 commission meeting with commissioners George Kruse and Mike Rahn voting against the idea.
If out in public during school hours, past 11 p.m. on school nights or midnight on weekends and legal holidays, the curfew authorizes the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office to take anyone under 16 into custody, though curfew breaking is not a criminal offense…