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The Santa Cruz County Fair is open to all members of the public. The Fair strives to maintain a safe, fun, and family-friendly environment. In order to encourage this environment, the Fair has developed the following dress policy. If persons are found to be in violation of the dress policy, those persons will be requested to remove and store the clothing or cover visible tattoos that are in violation of the policy. If a person refuses to comply with the policy, that person will be asked to leave the Fair with a full refund.
POLICY: The wearing or displaying of clothing, clothing accessories with gang insignias, monikers, or identification, including a specific combination of colors or symbols commonly associated with an "outlaw motorcycle gang," a "criminal street gang," or associated clubs or gangs, as those terms are defined by the California Department of Justice, is strictly prohibited. Specifically, vests, jackets, shirts, hats, jewelry, pants, shoes, socks, shorts, or other clothing accessories or items of clothing are strictly prohibited to the extent they contain any logo, insignia, moniker, or writing associated with the Hells Angels, the Mongols, the Vagos, the Top Hatters, the Ghost Mountain Riders, the Nortenos, the Surenos, or any criminal street gang or identified associate club. This includes but is not limited to the wearing of any patches embossed with “1%,” or the name, location, and chapter number of any division or unit of an outlaw motorcycle or criminal street gang, or associate clubs. The Fair has developed this policy in order to preserve a safe family atmosphere and to prevent the type of violence between opposing gang members that has occurred locally and at events throughout the United States such as the violence that occurred at the 2002 Annual Laughlin River Run. The Fair is aware of the legal decision of Gatto v. County of Sonoma (2002) 98 Cal.App.4th 744 and with this policy is attempting to comply with the legal principles set forth in that decision.
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