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ORTIZ PUSHES BILL TO REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECKS ON BOUNCERS 

Assemblyman Ortiz’s A.11137 Provides Much Needed Accountability

(Albany NY) Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, (Brooklyn), is offering his bill A.11137 as an answer to lawsuits such as the one recently filed by the St. Guillen family, whose daughter was murdered at a Manhattan bar. The St. Guillen’s are suing bar owners for hiring an ex-con as a bouncer.

“If my bill A.11137 was passed, this lawsuit would not exist. My goal is for bouncers to undergo stringent background checks to ensure that there is no criminal record. A bouncer is hired to keep the peace within an establishment. Someone with a record of violence is not the person to be doing this”, Ortiz stated. “There also needs to be accountability, which is why my bill makes everyone involved in hiring a bouncer liable,” Ortiz continued.

Ortiz’s bill mandates that bouncers or anyone acting in that capacity, submit to a background investigation including fingerprinting and a training program. It also holds the manager, owner and property owner (if different) liable for hiring a bouncer with a criminal record. Ortiz worked on the bill with Parents of Murdered Children Chair, Michael Salem, whose godson’s death occurred at L’Amour East Club in Queens (www.helpchristopher.com).

Since his godson’s death in 1987, Salem has been campaigning for the creation of legislation that would prevent similar cases from occurring and was enthusiastic to find an ally in Ortiz. “We cannot allow our young people to go into these bars and nightclubs where sadistic people with violent backgrounds are employed as the bouncers, who are supposed to be protecting them”, Salem stated.

Ortiz is urging his colleagues in the Assembly to support the passage of this legislation as well as “Imette’s Law”, which requires the installation of surveillance cameras outside of bars and nightclubs. “When these bills become laws, countless tragedies will be prevented”, stated Ortiz. 
 
Press Contact:
M. Salem
http://www.helpchristopher.com
email:
helpchris@helpchristopher.com
voice: 1-212-697-0644
mobile1: 1-917-837-2700
mobile2:
1-917-412-9739


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