Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Marietta High School will host their prom on April 14, and Osborne High School will hold their prom on April 20 at the Turner Field 755 Club.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Prom season is upon us—a time of celebration for teenagers and their families. Many proms and parties are scheduled throughout March, April and May. Marietta High School will host their prom on April 14, and Osborne High School will hold their prom on April 20 at the Turner Field 755 Club. But while prom is a time of celebration, it is also a time of increased underage drinking. The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce and its partners—law enforcement agencies, schools and community leadership—throughout the county are trying to get the word out. Don't drink and drive prom night. Underage drinking is a factor in the three leading causes of death for youth, also contributing to assaults, date rape, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, …
Monday, March 5, 2012
Entries will address the problem of adults providing alcohol to youth under 21 or how youth can use sources of strength to change attitudes about youth using alcohol.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Students in grades six through 12 who represent a school or community group based in Cobb County are eligible to submit student-produced video public service announcements on underage drinking. Cobb Alcohol Taskforce, Cobb County School District Prevention Intervention Center and Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities are sponsoring the contest to showcase student’s creative media talents and to increase the use of effective messaging to prevent underage drinking and promote youth sources of strength. PSAs must to be 30, 60 or 90 seconds and address 1 of 2 topics: 1) the problem of adults providing alcohol to youth under 21 or 2) how youth can use sources of strength to change attitudes about youth using …
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Local youths participated in the Cobb Alcohol Taskforce initiative.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce Youth Council helped spread awareness about underage drinking during its recent Project Sticker Shock initiative at retail outlets in Marietta and other Cobb cities. According to a release from the organization, youths placed hundreds of stickers displaying warning messages about the penalties for providing alcohol to minors on beer cases, wine coolers and other alcohol-related products that might appeal to young drinkers. The idea for the Project Sticker Shock initiative was planned during the fall Youth Council Summit. Cobb Alcohol Taskforce member, Youth Council coordinator and public health educator Amy Hoffman organized the event assisted by Sgt. Amie Herd and intern Aaron Larkin of the Cobb Sheriff’s Office…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Marietta Police conducted an alcohol compliance check on 35 businesses in Marietta.
The Marietta Police Department conducted an alcohol compliance check on Feb. 17. Thirty-five businesses were checked, and four sold alcoholic beverages to underage buyers. The buyers did not provide false identification or misrepresent their age in any way. The following businesses were cited for selling to minors: The following Marietta businesses passed the check:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Cobb County Police Department's Permits/Regulatory Services Unit conducted an Alcohol Compliance Check in Marietta.
On Feb. 16, the Cobb County Police Department's Permits/Regulatory Services Unit conducted an Alcohol Compliance Check. During the operation, 20 retail establishments were checked for compliance. The following Marietta businesses passed the compliance check by not selling alcohol to the underage volunteers: The following locations failed compliance checks and sold to underage volunteers: The following locations passed the compliance check but were issued citations for permits violations:
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Sixty-one percent of Cobb 10th and 12th graders participating in the 2009 Georgia Student Health Survey said that they use alcohol at a friends’ house.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce premiered Youth Know the Truth: Inside an Underage Drinking Party at their bimonthly taskforce meeting hosted at Turner Chapel AME Church on Tuesday. Private home parties are the primary source by which youth obtain alcohol. Research shows that private home parties frequently lack adult supervision and are the source for other drug use, risky sexual behaviors, violence and vandalism. Sixty-one percent of Cobb 10th and 12th graders participating in the 2009 Georgia Student Health Survey said that they use alcohol at a friends’ house. The youth council hopes that the live and taped productions of YKT will be an eye-opener for Cobb County adults. Youth Know the Truth: Inside an Underage Drinking Party is a taped …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Letter to the editor: All southern states contiguous to Georgia have now adopted social host laws. The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce hopes parents and other adults step up to their responsibility for deterring and preventing underage drinking on private property
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
We don’t really know how things went so wrong for the parents from Menlo Park, CA, who face 44 counts of suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Bill Burnett, a Stanford University professor, was arrested the night after Thanksgiving over a basement party thrown by his son, 17, to celebrate a high school football win, reported Leanne Italie. The story didn’t report how the alcohol showed up, or if this was the first time police responded to a call at this location, or what precipitated the call that led police to find teenagers drinking alcohol at this home. Instead, the story attempted to examine whether holding parents legally responsible through the use of “social host” laws–laws designed to hold individuals responsible…
