WA: White Center’s voluntary alcohol initiative could lead to mandatory state restrictions
In April, the King County Sheriff’s Office combined forces with beer distributors and White Center, Washington, community groups to ask convenience stores to abstain from selling high-alcohol, inexpensive single serve beverages from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. The ban's purpose is to limit daytime drinking by White Center's homeless, chronic inebriate population. The Washington State Liquor Control Board has an Alcohol Impact Area designation that could be applied, but a community "must first attempt a voluntary Alcohol Impact Area," which is happening now.
