Strip Club News

The Barre city council has renewed the business license of the Planet Rock gentlemen’s club despite earlier allegations of inappropriate touching of a dancer by a patron. The city council had originally refused to reinstate the license of Vermont’s only strip club citing the one prior allegation of a customer placing his head between a dancer’s breasts.

The new license prohibits “lewd physical contact” between dancers and customers. The owner of the strip club, Daniel Garr, is currently suing the city claiming that the contact and three-foot rules are unconstitutional. A superior court judge recently rejected Garr’s request that restrictions on distance and contact be lifted.

The Barre city council is refusing to renew the license of a nude strip club because a patron allegedly touched a dancer in July of 2006.

Planet Rock’s nude dancer license is set to expire on December 31st. Last July, a county liquor inspector allegedly saw a customer place his head between a dancer’s breasts, violating a requirement that dancers stay at least three feet from customers. Now the city is using that one isolated incident to eliminate nude dancing.

Obviously, the city of Barre is using this minor incident to rob people of their constitutional right to enjoy nude entertainment. Their interest isn’t the safety and welfare of dancers, the rights of citizens, or anything else. Their true interest is to eliminate nude dancing anyway possible. Expect more of this type of thing across the United States as more and more municipalities enact harsh restrictions on strip clubs that could result in more “gotcha” situations such as this.