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ACTIVITIES. 1 Develop collaborative efforts to increase the effectiveness of retail store compliance checks and enforcement activities 2 Conduct baseline surveys for on-premise (bar and restaurant) compliance checks. 3 Decrease fake ID use among minors by performing police sweeps m a vanery of public establishments and azeas. 4 Pass laws demanding more significant penalties for manufactunng and selling fake ID's 5 Reduce the amount of alcohol purchased via the Internet by minors. 6 Conduct "shoulder tapping" opetnaons to minimize the number of adults who purchase alcohol for minors and the number of minors who attempt to initiate this type of activity 7. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of implementing keg regisaaROn by county to track the purchasers and distributors of alcohol. Consistent enforcement of laws to reduce the distnbution, consumption and harmful use of alcohol to and by mrors is senously needed. For example, mandating keg registration may help to combat underage dririlaag, pamculaziy for rave games. Laws that rcquu-e purchasers of kegs of beer to be identified and matched to an identity tag on the keg are believed to be needed by some experts There is a need to develop cleazly defined procedures for how the ~uvemle court system handles tumors who nolate the hquor laws. What happens to a tumor who violates the hquor laws What route is taken to process the mmor~ Are the punishments too lenient? What are the loopholes in the system There is a need to educate prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges about the seriousness of underage dnnlang so that they view it as a possible precursor to more serous offenses. Educating judges may be a good and easy option. Cleazly defined procedures for what happens to a juvenile who violates the liquor laws are needed Also, there is a need to uaprove enforcement efforts for tumors and adults who are multiple DUI offenders. For example, there could be a more mteastve interveaaon for repeat drinking under the uifluence (DUI) offenders. Currently there are no classes for to repeat offenders. There is also no way to Rack repeat offenses for tumors under age 18. Better reporting of came statistics will help to provide a better picture of the senousness of the problem of underage dunking.