Santa Rosa, CA Curfew Laws: Juvenile Curfew (2026)

010. The Council's stated purpose is protecting minors given their "reduced ability to make critical decisions in an informed and mature manner" while preserving community safety. from June through August. "Public place" is defined broadly to include streets, highways, common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, office buildings, transit facilities, shops and their parking lots, and any other place readily accessible to the public. The ordinance creates two offenses: a minor who remains in a public place during curfew hours, and a parent, guardian or responsible adult who knowingly permits a minor to do so.

Nine defenses are built into subsection (D), covering minors accompanied by a parent or responsible adult, running an errand at a parent's direction without detour, traveling interstate in a vehicle, going to or from employment without detour, responding to an emergency, standing on the sidewalk next to their own residence, attending a school, religious or adult-supervised civic activity, exercising First Amendment rights, or being legally emancipated. 030, separately bars minors under 18 from entering or remaining in paid pool or billiard rooms without written parental permission, and bars operators from admitting them without it.