Sunday, March 4, 2007

City Passes Nightclub Security Laws - Cameras Required at Doors

NEW YORK -- The City Council passed measures Wednesday - about a year after the death of a Massachusetts woman -- that require security cameras at nightclub doors and make it easier to shut down businesses that sell fake identifications.

Graduate student Imette St. Guillen, a Boston native, was abducted, raped and killed last February. An unlicensed bouncer at a Manhattan bar where she had been drinking was charged in her death.

Rosemarie Arnold, a lawyer for St. Guillen's mother and sister, said the family was grateful the City Council had acted to make nightlife safer.

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