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Forest Park council debates laptop/DJ rules, denies several entertainment-license applications as presented
Summary
Council members pressed for clearer distinctions between background music and licensed performances after several vague entertainment-license applications; applications that lacked specific dates or proposed restricted hours were denied or sent back for clarification.
A contentious discussion over how the village defines and licenses entertainment — in particular, whether music played from a laptop by an employee should require an entertainment license — dominated part of Forest Park’s May 9 council meeting.
Council members described two distinct scenarios: (1) a bartender or employee who plays background music on a device as part of normal business operations, and (2) a person brought in to manage music who functions like a DJ. "What the business owner indicated to me is an employee will be managing the laptop ... so…
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