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Oasis really sets the tone for the whole
State in terms of prevention efforts in underage drinking.
It really looks to provide policy and guidance to
providers and community efforts.
I remember those institutes well.
We had a team that came and the plan they worked
on was to develop legislation that would
hold parents who provided alcohol to young people at
parties liable for that behavior.
They went back to their community in Nassau County,
Long Beach, it's a summer resort community,
and you know what happened out of that, 2 years later,
the first social host law was passed in New York State.
There's a prevailing culture in our community-and
in all communities-that really supports underage drinking,
in subtle ways and not so subtle ways.
And so we knew we had to look at the policies and
the practices that really allow it to happen.
The passage of a social host law does more then
just have people being arrested or ticketed,
what it does is, it engages people in conversation.
It makes them talk about the issues involved
underneath it, social host laws have raised the bar,
they have opened up the discussion and they have
made it known, this is socially unacceptable and
it is a public health risk.
One of the things that we're trying to do in
New York State is make social hosts the, the law of the
State so that young people will know that no matter
where they go, that there is some consequence to
hosting that party, a parent will know that
there's a consequence to hosting that party for
minors where you serve alcohol.
The keg registration law is a law where there is a
registration when an individual buys a keg
so it can be traced back.
The community came together and identified a
problem that it seemed that the bars were open
too long and that students had longer access to alcohol and
were walking back up to the campus at later hours.
The community came together to work on a
policy change, which is an environmental change,
to reduce the bar hours from 2 o'clock to 1 o'clock on
weekdays and then from 3 o'clock to 2 o'clock on the weekends.