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Alexandria seeks clearer state law and funding to enforce ban on 'skill games' and asks for local control over delivery robots
Summary
Law-enforcement officials told the subcommittee that court rulings and new machine designs have created ambiguity around "skill games," and requested either a statewide clarification that they are illegal or explicit local authority and funding to enforce seizures; the committee also discussed seeking local authority to regulate or prohibit sidewalk delivery robots.
Law enforcement and legal staff pressed the legislative subcommittee for state action on two enforcement and technology issues: ambiguities in the law covering so-called "skill games" and gaps in local authority over autonomous delivery devices.
Several enforcement speakers described a pattern in which industry vendors have engineered devices that courts sometimes rule do not violate existing code. A city enforcement official estimated…
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