California’s attorney general has told the owners of two San Diego strip clubs to follow orders because he said they are violating the state’s new stay-at-home policy, which forbids social gatherings in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In a letter sent Friday to Midway Ventures LLC and F-12 Entertainment Group, the owners of Pacers Showgirls International and Cheetahs Gentlemen’s Club, respectively, Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra said the clubs must change their policies because they are in violation of the order, issued Dec. 6, that covers Southern California. The clubs sued the county in October after officials ordered them to close, saying live entertainment was not allowed under the public health order. AdvertisementThat argument set the strip clubs apart from restaurants or gyms, whose pleas to allow indoor activity was rejected by another San Diego judge last month when the county moved into the state’s most restrictive tier because of spiraling coronavirus cases.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 13, 2020 05:37 UTC