Lincoln Police have released results from an enforcement project conducted from mid-July to mid-September where alcohol and tobacco compliance checks were conducted throughout the City.
“A grant from the Nebraska Department of Transportation Highway Safety Division allowed LPD to assign additional undercover officers to work overtime on days, nights and weekends to combat the ongoing problem of selling or procuring alcohol and tobacco to minors,” says LPD Public Information Manager Erika Thomas.
“These enforcement efforts help ensure the compliance of tobacco and alcohol sales in Lincoln, while limiting minor youth from obtaining impairing products which extends to reducing fatal and serious impaired-related injury crashes in the Lincoln area.”
Thomas says officers visited 209 businesses and issued 42 citations. 40 of those citations were issued for selling tobacco or electronic nicotine to customers under the age of 21. The other two citations were for selling or providing alcohol to a minor.
Thomas says 80 percent of the businesses passed and some of the others that didn’t are already working to implement training so that they will be in compliance next time.