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PHILADELPHIA Bouncer bill gets OK Bouncers will be required to receive proper training and register with the city before they may begin working at local clubs and bars, thanks to a bill approved yesterday by City Council.
PHILADELPHIA
Bouncer bill gets OK
Bouncers will be required to receive proper training and register with the city before they may begin working at local clubs and bars, thanks to a bill approved yesterday by City Council.
Council voted unanimously to pass the bill, which Councilman Bill Greenlee sponsored after he was inspired by horrifying stories about reckless bouncers in a May Daily News story. Mayor Nutter is expected to sign the bill.
Change in lead-paint bill
City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown made some changes yesterday to a bill that would require landlords to have a certified technician conduct a dust-wipe test when property built before 1978 is turned over to a new tenant, to prevent lead-based paint exposure. Lead-based paint was prohibited for residences in 1978.
The bill was amended to narrow the focus to landlords who rent to families with children ages 6 and under.
Bad crash, good luck
An eighth-grade student narrowly escaped injury when an SUV crashed into a Roman Catholic elementary school in Bustleton.
The student had just entered a classroom at the Maternity B.V.M. School when a Dodge Durango lost control about 3:30 p.m., crashing into the building on Old Bustleton Avenue near Ambassador Street, and plowing into the same classroom.
The driver of the SUV and a 4-year-old passenger were taken to Aria Health's Torresdale hospital for observation. Neither was seriously injured. Parent-teacher conferences scheduled for today have been postponed until L & I can inspect the building.
LOWER MERION
New webcam suit filed
The Lower Merion Township School District, which paid more than $600,000 to settle allegations that it used laptop webcams to spy on students, is being sued by the sister of the original plaintiff.
Paige Robbins, 19, filed a federal lawsuit against the school district yesterday, contending that it secretly captured embarrassing images of her at home through her school-issued laptop's webcam.
Her brother, Blake Robbins, sued the district last year over software that allowed school employees to remotely activate the webcams to track missing computers. He received $175,000 of a $600,000 settlement.
Paige Robbins' lawyer, Mary Elizabeth Bogan, said that her client's rights weren't addressed in that case. District spokesman Doug Young called the new lawsuit "an attempted money-grab." He said that an investigation recovered no images of Paige Robbins.
- Staff and wire reports