[Drew68]

Please read the whole story. This is lovely! If the cops see an open can of beer in your home and you have a minor living under your roof, technically this gives them probable cause to enter your home!

But remember, it is for the chiiillldddrrreeennn!!!

[blackeagle]

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

[ladylib]

We have a similar law in my state but supposedly a cop has to have probable cause -- such as a call about a disturbance at a house. A cop just can't decide to stand on your porch and look into your windows. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep your blinds down anyway.

[SpaceBar]

Step right up folks. Civil protections against unreasonable searches is being eroded right here. If these people wanted to discourage teen drinking, they'd arrange field trips to freeway underpasses, prisons, hospital emergency rooms, and psychiatric facilities, not busting down doors looking for wine coolers.

[dfwddr]

The police best use extreme caution...... I for one have a rule what to do if someone is peering in my windows.

[Still Thinking]

Since when do parents not have the legal right to give alcohol to their own kids? The 21 thing is just for in public.

[FierceDraka]

Once again, those who would regulate and control every aspect of our private lives knock another chip from the protections against unwarranted state intrusion while screeching the tired old battle cries of the oppressor: "Public Safety!" and "It's For The Chilllldren!"

And let me tell you something else. When I was a lad, if some "local officials" would have started asking me about my feelings about alcohol, I would have looked 'em straight in the eye and told them I never touched the stuff, and neither did any of my friends. A "tactical misdirection", if you will.

I've always been of the belief that, as long as I am not causing anyone harm, what I do on my own time is nobody's business but mine.

[TontoKowalski]

Well, as long as the cops are nosing around people's homes, on the say-so of a phone-in tipster, I do hope they will inspect the smoke detectors to insure that the batteries are functioning.

I'm concerned about fire safety, and they might as well take on the battery tasking. On their off-time from raising other people's children, of course.

[TheLion]

Wonderful, more rights going down the tubes because parents can't seem to make their children into responsible adults.

The people on these councils must not be smart enough to know they are giving up their rights.

Police have no business in your house unless you call them or have a an emergency they are responding to.

Isn't socialism wonderful.

[longtermmemmory]

This is stupid and the picture of the busybodies who dominate government. Parents SHOULD be able to give their children wine with diner as part of teaching RESPONSIBLE consumption.

If the government council has time for this then they should have their pay cut because they are overpaid and the government does not have enough to do and taxes reduced to adjust for the lack of need.