We’d better be talking about some unobtrusive permits here.
The City Council today approved a measure that will require strippers to wear permits while they are on stage.
City Councilman Chip Haass pushed the amended human display ordinance as making it easier for police to identify dancers.
But a lawyer representing several strip clubs in the city said it would also create a physical danger by making it easier for an obsessed customer to find out a dancer’s real name and where she lives.
Attorney Jim Deegear has said he will file a lawsuit challenging the measure, which the 11-member council passed unanimously early Friday during a marathon meeting that began Thursday afternoon.
Deegear says the city’s strict rules are part of an effort to drive his clients out of business.
The strip clubs’ attorney makes a very valid objection about the publication of a dancer’s personal information. This is a rather poor idea.
There is one lingering question, though: is some sort of test needed to obtain such a permit and, if so, how is it scored?