The Compton City Council has voted almost unanimously to suspend the issuance of permits for the sale of fireworks, citing its authority under the municipal code. Fireworks have been a long-standing point of contention within the Compton community for at least the past decade. In 2017, the City Council placed a Charter Amendment on the ballot that proposed a ban on all firework sales and voters at the time rejected said charter amendment. Prior …
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