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Afterit was reported last weekthat a Palm Beach County clerk who issued ID cards for strippers allegedly embezzled more than $25,000, the Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County has called for an end to the cards.

Because exotic dancers deal almost exclusively in cash, Public Safety Department worker Anita Pedemey was able to alter ledgers to skim from the $75 fees dancers pay for the ID cards, the countys Inspector General reported March 28.

The n program, which began in 1998, is meant to keep underage girls from working in strip clubs. More than 9,000 adult entertainers, almost all women, have been registered so far for the lifetime IDs. In 2008, the fee was increased from $25 to $75.

The Libertarian Party argues that, if anyone in the county is issuing these cards, it shouldnt be the Public Safety Department, whose primary service is first response and emergency management.

And it says the county program is discriminatory.

Why have adult dancers been singled out? Someone handling my food is far more important to me than whether an adult worker has been forced to pay $75 to the county government to earn a

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living, said local Libertarian chair, Karl Dickey, who recently had a failed run for a seat on the Palm Beach Soil & Water Conservation District.

The party also issued part of a column about the Palm Beach County cards by Elizabeth Nolan Brown on Reason.com, the web page of the Libertarian-leaning Reason Foundation. It read in part that the prevention angle is ludicrous; anyone willing to force someone else into sex or labor and circumvent much more serious rules with regard to age limits isnt going to suddenly take pause over an occupational licensing rule theyll have to skirt.

County Vice Mayor Melissa McKinlay disagreed. McKinlay, who was in Tallahassee Fridayfor legislative meetings,said the cards do prevent trafficking and shein fact isasking county lawyers if some of the money from the ID cards could be used for human trafficking awareness programs.

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