Gulf Shores will ban alcohol again during spring break

For a fourth straight year, the city of Gulf Shores will ban alcohol from its beaches during the spring beach season.

“It continues to pay dividends,” Chief Ed Delmore told the City Council in a recent meeting.

In 2016, unruly crowds of college students began spring break with massive gatherings on the beaches that threatened to overwhelm police. One poignant incident showed a spring breaker throwing a long-distance pass with a football onto the roof of a Gulf Shores police cruiser. A video from the spring breaker’s perspective of the toss was widely shared on social media.

Police were not amused and a warrant was issued for a Texas State student. In a specially called meeting on March 18, 2016, the City Council voted to ban alcohol on the beach for the remaining month of the season. Most recently, it voted again on Oct. 22 to implement the ban for the third straight full season of spring break to include the 2019 season.

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