KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Heads up parents, Kansas City is reinstating its annual summer curfew for teens, starting today.

The ordinance is aimed at keeping kids and teens safe and reducing violence at some of the city’s busiest areas.

“I am a mom of three teenagers right now. I have one adult son in his freshman year in college, and among their peers, I see that there’s always a need for something to do,” said Di’Anna Saffold founder of Village KC.

Saffold started the organization targeting teens around the city by providing them with after school activities to get involved.

“Just things to keep them active and busy, but safe things and safe places for them to do,” said Saffold.

The summer curfew was started back in 2011 and has continued to be enforced at five of the city’s entertainment districts including, the Central Business District, Westport, Country Club Plaza, 18th and Vine, and Zona Rosa.

The curfew applies to anyone under the age of 18 after 9:00 p.m. at the five entertainment districts.

But, youth ages 15 and younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian after 10 p.m. citywide. Youth aged 16 and 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian after 11 p.m. citywide.

“I think that it’s sad that we’ve come to this place, and we’ve gotten here in multiple ways. I think it’s very easy to blame parents. I think it’s very easy to blame the teens. But I think there’s also a greater call on the community as well as the city to have more opportunities for students to enjoy themselves, have fun, learn some things and be safe,” said Saffold.

Violations of the curfew could result in in detention of the minor and fines up to $500 for parents.

The Mayor’s office has announced the Mayor’s Night Hoops is returning. Kicking off the first event on June 7.

KSHB 41 reporter Marlon Martinez covers Platte and Clay counties in Missouri. Share your story idea with Marlon.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – The National Weather Service provided ratings for several of the reported 16 tornadoes that swept through several counties in western and central Kansas on Sunday. On a night in which destruction in the towns of Grinnell and Plevna captured the most attention, the NWS confirmed several additional tornadoes in portions of Scott, Logan, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford, and Reno counties. The unusually active stretch of strong, tornado-producing storms in Kansas began with a twister reported in the northwest corner of the state, in Cheyenne County. Several hours later, one of the night’s most destructive tornadoes tore through Plevna in Reno County a little after midnight, early Monday morning.

The good news from the night full of dangerous storms was that there were no deaths nor reports of serious injuries.

Among the 16 tornadoes, Storm Team 12 reported seven rated EF3, meaning they had peak wind gusts of 136 to 165 mph on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. Five of the seven EF3 tornadoes, the strongest of the night, were reported in Kiowa County and the two that devastated Grinnell (Gove County) and Plevna (Reno County). Other EF3s included a tornado in Pratt County, impacting an area from about Cullison to near Iuka, and a storm that spun up in Pratt and carried into Stafford County.

“I can’t recall a time when we had so many strong tornadoes in one day,” Storm Team 12 Chief Meteorologist Ross Janssen summarized.

A Kiowa County tornado that narrowly missed Greensburg knocked over about 100 cars on a train stopped outside of Haviland. Another Kiowa County tornado, southeast of Mullinville, caused widespread destruction to a nearby farmstead. The third EF3 tornado in Kiowa County dropped near Haviland.

There were no reports of significant damage from the widely photographed twister in Scott County, near Scott State Park. This tornado, rated EF2, ended in southern Logan County. The NWS reported that it was on the ground for about 30 minutes and reached a maximum width of 300 yards. Another Scott County EF2 tornado, reported near the unincorporated community of Modac, stretched about half as wide as the prior twister near Scott State Park.

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