Thanks for your efforts, Steve. I'm perplexed as to why displaying whether an establishment is 51% or not would somehow be a privacy issue. After all, any licensed establishment must show their license to anyone who asks, so the information is essentially public anyway. What about releasing 51% status did they consider a breech of private information?srothstein wrote:I agree. I have tried to get that part put in and met resistance on how private the information is supposed to be.Velocity wrote:This could be a very useful system for "checking" a location beforehand to see if they're 51% or not IF it actually stated they were 51% or not. Unfortunately, it doesn't..srothstein wrote: To be sure, check the TABC Public Inquiry System to see if they have a license or permit at all.
But, it will tell you if they have a license at all, such as in this case. And if they have a FB (food and beverage subordinate permit), it cannot be 51%. This will help in some cases.
As we discussed a while back regarding Zona Rosa here in Austin, they are an all-ages venue and charge relatively steep admission to shows - facts that put in doubt in my mind whether they were indeed 51%. I was unable to get a specific answer from the Sergeant I spoke to back then, and haven't been back to the venue since that time to view the license. If I were to have ready access to such information without having to physically return to the venue, it would make my decision to attend shows there much easier. Is there any way we as civilians can petition to get the system changed in the interest of records transparency?