Public Safety Committee Unsure Of “Baggy Pants” Ordinance
Members of the Rome Public safety committee tackled the sagging question of baggy pants at Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
Two speakers spoke in favor of some type of ordinance to tackle the issue. Ender Price who spoke to the committee said, “Commissioners may feel this is a trivial issue but people should be able to walk down the street and not see someone else’s behind. She added, this problem has no color, creed or religion. It is a people problem.”
Commissioner Jamie Doss said, “If we create a new law that prohibits baggy pants, where does it stop.” Quite frankly, there are some men that do not need to take their shirts off, do we restrict that?
Commissioner Doss added, “We may not all agree that there should be a law to restrict it, but we all agree that we don’t like it.”
No action was taken about the issue however, Committee members directed Rome Police chief Hubert Smith to check with other municipalities that have an ordinance regarding baggy pants and report back to the committee at the next Public Safety meeting.
