re: #146 MandyManners

Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee unanimously recommended an ordinance Wednesday that would penalize liquor stores that sell booze to people identified by the city as chronic alcoholics, ALRC member Ald. Michael Schumacher, 18th District, said.

Is this Constitutional based on the Eighth Amendment?

Uh - how are they supposed to know if the city has identified them? Will they have a scarlet ‘A’ tattooed on their forehead?

And can the city reasonably be expected to make such an identification in the first place? Alcoholism is a disease, and requires a medical diagnosis.

This sounds like an ordinance that’s already circling the drain. It’s only hope for survival is the unlikelihood that anyone will challenge it.