New Resource Addresses Off-Campus Parties
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March 11, 2011
The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center is offering a new guide, Party Patrols: Best Practice Guidelines for College Communities. The guide offers standard operating procedures for monitoring and interrupting unruly community parties. Presenting party patrols as a comprehensive program, the guide describes six specific components:
- Effective legal tools
- Messaging and visibility
- Party prevention and education
- Early intervention
- Collaborative partnerships
- Enforcement strategies
The Appendix includes, as examples, six municipal nuisance ordinances that have proven to be effective tools for their respective police departments.