Activists seek changes in Vegas work card system

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000 | 10:21 a.m.

A group of activists are challenging the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police work card system.

The workers-rights groups are demanding that Metro release related records, including the system's revenues and expenditures, rules on who gets the cards, and the number of denials.

"This is not the Soviet Union of the 1950s; this is the United States in the year 2000," Gary Peck, head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said Tuesday. "People have a right to work, and when the government decides that work is a privilege, that's a problem."

Various groups have raised objections in recent weeks to the work card program, which mandates police-approved work cards for a variety of jobs, mainly related to hotels and casinos.

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