DNR focusing on underage drinking violations on Brainerd area lakes

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DNR focusing on underage drinking violations on Brainerd area lakes
(Released December 23, 2010)


A grant from the Minnesota Institute of Public Health will enable conservation officers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to focus on illegal underage alcohol consumption that occurs in the outdoor recreation arena.

Conservation officers have routinely encountered underage consumption violations when conducting routine angling license checks on the ice. During the approaching holiday season, local conservation officers will be working throughout the Brainerd lakes area and focusing on those areas that have had issues of illegal underage consumption violations in the past.

The Minnesota Institute of Public Health provided the alternative alcohol enforcement funding through the “Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program” of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.