Politics & Government

Foxborough Looks to Curb Public Drinking

The board of selectmen voted to support a town meeting article that would petition the legislature to pass a Public Endangerment Act.

Foxborough's board of selectmen voted last week, 5-0, to support a town meeting article that would petition the legislature to pass a Public Endangerment Act.

Support of the Public Endangerment Act comes after the Attorney General's office rejected that would have allowed fines for public drunkenness. The bylaw was rejected by the Attorney General because of a conflict with a 1971 state law decriminalizing public drunkenness.

The Public Endangerment Act would allow Foxborough police to fine a persons who "displays a state of intoxication or drunkenness to the degree that he poses a danger to himself or to others, poses a danger to property, or presents a clear and imminent likelihood of criminal conduct, in the Town of Foxborough or upon any public place or place to which the public has been invited to access..."

Foxborough police and town officials support the act, as they aim to reduce public safety problems fueled by public drunkenness.

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