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The law gives police the authority to enter at will and without cause. The cost of the card system will be defrayed by an increase in club license fees.Ĭlubs cannot hire performers without the cards, must keep rosters of them at all times and be able to produce the cards when requested. In addition to raising the stripper age from 18 to 21, the city will require all adult-entertainment performers to obtain “performer work identification cards” from the Sheriff’s Office. Most victims are females 14 to 17 years old. 25 and Mayor Lenny Curry is to sign Thursday, will help plug a pipeline of trafficking young girls from strip clubs into the sex trade.įlorida is ranked third nationally for reported cases of human trafficking, many of which involve sex trafficking, with Jacksonville third for large cities in Florida. Supporters hope the ordinance, which the City Council approved Feb. In Jacksonville’s latest effort to crack down on sex trafficking, a new city law will impose tighter regulations on adult-entertainment businesses, including requiring strippers to be at least 21 years old.

There is more in this story from The Florida Times Union. The law also requires performers to get work identification cards from the sheriff’s office.Ĭity attorneys have not yet responded to the lawsuit. The 140-page suit notes that people under 21 can hold any other job at those businesses, even own the clubs.

The Florida Times-Union reported that after the law was signed, the clubs were prevented from using close to 100 dancers under age 21 during a two-week period, according to the lawsuit. “The Constitution does not permit the deprivation of First Amendment rights based on the age of … citizens who have attained the age of 18,” attorneys Gary Edinger and James Benjamin argue in a complaint filed in the names of 13 businesses and four dancers, two of them under age 21. But lawyers for the clubs, including the lead plaintiff Wacko’s, contend in a federal lawsuit that it violates the First Amendment by restricting the ability of performers to dance. The law in Jacksonville was enacted March 5 in a bid to reduce human trafficking. (AP) - Adult clubs in one Florida city are suing over a new law that raised the minimum age for strippers from 18 to 21.