Orange Park Mall<\/a>‘s new normal. On Fridays and Saturdays, guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult to receive a verified wristband.<\/p>\nMary Scarbrough told First Coast News she\u2019s lived in Orange Park for quite some time raising four boys. She added that she\u2019s in favor of the mall\u2019s new policy. In fact, she has suggestions of her own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a good start, but I think they should do it seven days a week,\u201d Scarbrough said. \u201cIt\u2019s about time \u2026 when the mall\u2019s open, they need to be supervised.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Fridays and Saturdays, at each entrance, teenagers and their parent or guardian will be asked to show their ID. If they\u2019re with a parent or guardian, they\u2019ll be given a wristband which alerts security inside that they\u2019ve been verified and free to shop. Off-duty Clay County deputies will be teaming up with mall security during this process.<\/p>\n
First Coast News reached out to the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office for an interview with Sheriff Michelle Cook, but she was unavailable for comment. We did speak with CCSO spokesperson, Ben Ryan, on Wednesday when the policy was announced. Here\u2019s what they had to say.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a sheriff\u2019s office, we\u2019re supportive of any sort of policy that supports order and safety and anything of that nature,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n
First Coast News asked what the consequences are if this policy is violated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mall security is here to handle any sort of issue. Obviously if someone violates that policy. They\u2019re going to get involved, they\u2019ll be consequences up to the mall officials on what happens there,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cIf it meets the level of criminal, we\u2019ll handle it and if anyone breaks the law\u2014 we\u2019ll arrest them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consequences are something long-time residents like Mary say are important to teach young people\u2026 whether in her household or at the mall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told them; we taught them right from wrong and if they got in trouble they had to pay the consequences,\u201d Scarbrough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday at 4 p.m. was the start of the new youth supervision policy. Guests under the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-312055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115392342023435845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}