![]() ![]() That's a decision for your bar owner, not you, however. The school has offered its bartending classes for over 40 years and has trained thousands of bartenders worldwide. Sounds like the police are tying to force the restaurant and bar businesses to solve a police and law enforcement problem which they do not know how to solve, and the enforcement mechanism they are using should be challenged. Harvard, a renowned business and law school, is also known as one of the top online bartending schools that can help learners learn and master the craft of mixology. That's a lot of private information (name, home address, date of birth, photo, license restrictions, etc.) to have to give up to a third party for the privilege of buying a beer. The police cannot force the bar to photograph every patron's ID, and I can imagine many people of legal age would even stop going to an establishment that had such a policy. ![]() I suppose if hundreds of patrons on any given night are being served, a question can be raised about turning a blind eye to the problem, and the bar becoming a public nuisance, but that is a liquor license issue to be addressed by the liquor board. Drag artist, author and Ru Pauls Drag Race winner Sasha Velour is this weeks guest on Dua Lipa: At Your Service. The threat by the police to arrest and charge every bartender is not a legitimate threat as far as prosecution goes, as the law would not support the charge unless there is some evidence the bartenders had knowledge they were serving underage patrons. The criminal offense of serving alcohol to an underage person provides, “ person may not furnish an alcoholic beverage to an individual if … the person furnishing the alcoholic beverage knows that the individual is under the age of 21 years….” The knowledge element of the offense is what a reasonable bartender would be deemed to know or should know under the circumstances, so you cannot rely on deliberate ignorance or ignore reasonable grounds to believe the person is underage. ![]()
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