"Kansas bill aimed at sexually oriented businesses [SOBs"] Kansas City [MO] Star 2/16/2011.
The "Community Defense Act" aims to: "outlaw physical contact between patrons and dancers; prohibit the sale of alcohol; require [SOBs] to close at midnight; and restrict where new [SOBs] could open." The bill would create statewide rules for bookstores, strip clubs, & other SOBs. Last spring the Kansas legislature "narrowly" failed to pass such restrictions; since the November election the legislature has become even more lopsidedly Republican and the executive branch is now in Republican hands.
As most TUSCL members know, Missouri began enforcing it's new law late in August of last year. Imagine the chagrin of the unwary visitor to KC's Bazookas seeing dancers in bikinis after having viewed BZ's website which STILL [today] advertises "100% naked where it counts."
I've been absent from TUSCL since the law took effect because I haven't visited an SC deeming it to costly for what you get. SC owners have reported dramatic drops ("down nearly 80%") in patron headcount and mass exodus of dancers not only to Kansas but other states. More recently, one owner reported "traffic and sales have plummeted."
SC insider rumors say some clubs are looking to relocate to Kansas, possibly near the Kansas Speedway. The proposed Kansas law may sabotage that plan.
On the Missouri legal front: Initially, the MO SOB owners twice failed to win an injunction preventing implementation of the law pending legal action. Recently, on 1/27/2011 a circuit court judge dismissed the owners' lawsuit, cancelled the scheduled trial, and assessed legal fees to the owners and retailers who brought the lawsuit.
An attorney for the owners said he would appeal the ruling "to a higher court."
[additional material gathered from KC Star articles on 9/16/10 & 2/4/11]
STAY TUNED!
It would almost be funny if it weren't so ridiculous and it didn't infringe on my basic rights. They think that they are going to "clean up" Kansas this way. Bullcrap! All they are going to do is put honest businessmen out of business and dancers who don't want to be prostitutes out of business. The seediest girls will still do fine and there will be even more "pay for play" outside the clubs than there is now in them. If any of you lovely legislators are reading this, I just want to tell you how full of s**t you are. Thank you and have a lovely day.