Tuesday, January 06 2009
By Jennifer Jacobs
In the town of Hampton, for instance, police have never dished out a $50 ticket although everyone from City Council members to the police chief has known for months that bar-stool rebels there are flouting the law.
Violations have been spotted at 460 businesses and other public places since Iowa's Smokefree Air Act took effect in July, records show. Yet local authorities have not taken action against a single one.
The county attorney in Mitchell County has taken perhaps the boldest stand against the law. He sent a letter to the Iowa attorney general that declares that he thinks the law is unjust, and that he won't enforce it until it applies to all workplaces.
Dissent dilutes Iowa's smoking ban continues...
