Lithonia’s Mall at Stonecrest will soon tell teenagers to stay away on weekend nights if they aren’t with Mom or Dad.
Beginning next weekend, anyone under age 18 coming to the mall at night will have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, mall officials will announce on Friday.
The policy will apply on Fridays and Saturdays after 4 p.m., a time when youngsters typically roam the mall unfettered, mall spokesman Donald Bieler said.
“We want to promote family and safety and shopping in DeKalb,”Bieler said. “This will allow us to enhance our existing code of conduct.”
Bieler said DeKalb County commissioners Lee May and Connie Stokes worked with the mall to initiate the policy.
“With Dunwoody incorporating [as a city], DeKalb has lost a great deal of revenue,” he said. “That has made Stonecrest very important to the commissioners.”
Neither Stokes nor May could be reached for comment Thursday.
Stonecrest will become the second mall in metro Atlanta to enact a parental-escort policy.
Arbor Place Mall in Douglas County adopted a similar policy in March 2007. At least 40 malls nationwide, including shopping centers in Savannah and Brunswick, have similar policies.
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Mannnn this sucks!!!!!!!!! Those young ghetto middle schoolers ruin the fun for nice civilized teens as myself. They shut down teen clubs, and now tell us not to come to our local mall. Where do us teens suppose to go to have fun? Pretty soon they are going to tell us not to go to Six Flags either. I understand that this rule was pasted for our safety, because I have witness the fights that have broken out. However, I would like to make a suggestion. Can the community come together to create an alternitive way for teens to have fun?
Sincerly,
~Anonymous
Whenever i visit the mall i go there to shop. Point blank period. This isn't fair for teens like myself. I enjoy sitting at the mall and having lunch with my friends. These ghetto little kids are the ones who caused this. The black community is falling apart. If kids had a place to have fun and mingle with one another they wouldn't be stuck up at the mall anyways. This is so lame. Now that we cant go to the mall where will we hang out now?
Sincerely,
Devapriva
Why don't you teens create jobs for yourselves? Shine shoes, sell lemonade. All this talk about fun, and hanging out. Maybe that's the problem. Too much time on your hands. Go volunteer somewhere, since you're the "good kids". Go to your friends house like back in the good ole days.
I just want to go to the movies -____- does this law prevent that?
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