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Attorney General Apologizes to Those<\/em><\/strong> Targeted For Serving LGBTQ+ Patrons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENTON<\/strong> – As Pride month came to a close, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal took action to recognize an ugly moment in the history of the New Jersey Attorney General\u2019s Office: the systematic targeting of gay bars by the Office\u2019s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (\u201cABC\u201d) between 1933 and 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To right this historical wrong, Grewal apologized for these historical practices and issued a directive ordering ABC to vacate 126 enforcement actions that suspended or revoked the licenses of liquor establishments during that era because they served LGBTQ+ patrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This marked the first time the Attorney General\u2019s Office or ABC has formally apologized for their role in these actions that occurred prior to a landmark 1967 New Jersey Supreme Court decision, which held that ABC could not suspend a liquor license simply because the licensee allowed LGBTQ+ individuals to congregate at the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Grewal and ABC Director James Graziano announced that ABC would both expand its current anti-bias training to root out any implicit bias or discriminatory enforcement efforts and undertake a broader review of the agency\u2019s historical practices to determine whether any other communities were subject to discriminatory enforcement actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor too many years, New Jersey failed to live up to its professed values of diversity, inclusion, and respect as it relates to our LGBTQ+ community,\u201d said Governor Phil Murphy. \u201cWhile we cannot undo the injustices of the past, today\u2019s action by Attorney General Grewal demonstrates our commitment to recognizing the harms that have been suffered and acting to provide support to New Jersey\u2019s LGBTQ+ residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe Attorney General\u2019s Office is charged with furthering justice in New Jersey, and yet for more than three decades, our office fell far short,\u201d said Attorney General Grewal. \u201cThe time has come to acknowledge this failing, to apologize for what happened, and to make sure it never occurs again. We are committed to righting this historical wrong and strengthening our relationship with New Jersey\u2019s LGBTQ+ community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be clear, today\u2019s ABC is committed to according respect, dignity, fairness and appropriate due process to all parties and persons before it and will not discriminate – or by extension allow licensees or permittees to discriminate – against protected classes or the public,\u201d said Director Graziano. \u201cWe join Attorney General Grewal in acknowledging and condemning the harm our agency caused to members of the LGBTQ+ community and offer our sincere apologies to the generations of individuals impacted by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those actions, like others targeting gay bars, were based on two ABC regulations issued shortly after the end of Prohibition: Rule 4, which prohibited licensed liquor establishments from allowing \u201cfemale impersonators\u201d (among others) on their premises; and Rule 5, which prohibited licensees from operating their business \u201cin such a manner as to become a nuisance\u201d – a term that, until 1967, included allowing the \u201ccongregation of apparent homosexuals\u201d at the establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year, the New Jersey Supreme Court held in One Eleven Wines & Liquors, Inc. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control that ABC could not use its enforcement authority to target gay bars simply because they served LGBTQ+ patrons. However, since then, neither the Attorney General\u2019s Office nor ABC has formally apologized for its actions prior to the 1967 ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To address these failings, Grewal ordered ABC to take the following actions, with the support of and in consultation with Director Graziano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 Issue a Special Ruling that formally vacates all 126 ABC enforcement actions issued prior to 1967 that relied on Rule 4 or Rule 5 to suspend or revoke a liquor license because the licensee served LGBTQ+ patrons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 Post on the agency\u2019s website the records of all 126 actions vacated by today\u2019s directive, to ensure that the historical record is available to the public<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 Expand anti-bias and cultural diversity training for ABC investigators and attorneys, with a focus on interactions with the LGBTQ+ community, to ensure that the agency\u2019s staff treat all New Jerseyans with dignity and respect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7 Conduct a full review of the agency\u2019s historical records to determine if the agency\u2019s enforcement authority was used to target any other marginalized communities, with a report to the Attorney General due no later than October 15, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are immensely grateful to the Attorney General for his historic acts of restorative justice today,\u201d said Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director of Garden State Equality. \u201cAs the Garden State’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Grewal is uniquely positioned to not only acknowledge past government persecution of LGBTQ establishments and community members, but also to correct that past wrongdoing and be a significant part of the decades-long efforts to bring equity and legal protections to New Jersey’s LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis unprecedented action by Attorney General Grewal represents a profound and meaningful acknowledgment of the unfair discriminatory treatment visited upon the LGBTQ community in the past by state law enforcement officials,\u201d said Thomas Prol, a founding and current Executive Committee member of Garden State Equality and the past president of the New Jersey Bar Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe very people who were supposed to protect my community were actually the ones who led the charge in persecuting us – often viciously so – and they lost their jobs, homes, friends and families by those devastating actions. Attorney General Grewal and his senior staff should be commended for taking this deep dive to explore these terrible law enforcement practices, expose the truth, and reconcile with members of the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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