Setting the stage for safety at ACL

Keep in mind that ticket you and a whole lot of 1000’s of others purchased to get into this 12 months’s Austin Metropolis Limits Music Competition in Zilker Park? Effectively it seems it ensures you much more than simply music this 12 months.

“By buying a ticket, you comply with undergo a full physique pat down and magnetometer screening earlier than entry,” says the competition’s web site, which matches on so as to add, “Individuals that refuse to adjust to the search will likely be refused entry to the occasion.”

It is all a part of a security and safety plan competition organizers say they’re engaged on 24/7 that adjustments daily.

“We work intently with the Metropolis of Austin to repeatedly consider our safety measures , each seen and unseen,to make sure the protection of everybody within the park,” stated one competition organizer.

It is an strategy that is led to bans on every thing from large luggage to backpacks,and selfie sticks to explosives and firearms. However this 12 months a much less seen menace to the competition can be listed on their webpage.

“Security is our highest precedence on the ACL Competition,” reads the web site, “which incorporates public well being.”

Whereas this 12 months’s web site presents hyperlinks to study extra about stopping a more recent Monkeypox menace, Covid issues proceed.

“In case you’re unvaccinated, the CDC encourages you to convey and put on a masks,” says the web site which matches on so as to add, ” ACL competition encourages all patrons and workers to look out for one another and to not attend the competition if they do not really feel nicely.”

Whereas competition organizers inform us they’re going to be doing all they’ll to maintain issues protected and safe for the near half 1,000,000 competition goers anticipated on the park over two weekends, they’re relying on you to perform a little extra than simply benefit from the present.

“Keep in mind:”, says the web site,” You are the eyes and ears of the competition. In case you see one thing suspicious, say one thing.”