Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
New rules that would have allowed for fines and possible jail time for organizers and promoters of Antioch sideshows were shot down when the council chose not to advance them after all.a first reading of an ordinance that would allow fines of up to $1,000 or six months of jail time for those who organize or advertise any illegal street races, sideshows and reckless driving events.
When giving direction to staff earlier on a proposed ordinance, the council had agreed not to include fines for spectators because there was concern bystanders could get caught up in the sideshow just trying to get somewhere. Barbanica, however, called Antioch’s proposed rules against sideshow organizers “absolutely useless” and said he would not advance the proposed ordinance.
Ogorchock, though, said she had voted for the ordinance on a first reading because it “was a start,” but she had hoped it would evolve into something more.
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