Officials agree game rooms foster crime, county ordinance aims to make it harder for them to stay in business - Lubbock Lights

Officials agree game rooms foster crime, county ordinance aims to make it harder for them to stay in business - Lubbock Lights

Jason Corley and Kelly Rowe agree that game rooms in Lubbock County are a cauldron for crime. “Are these things basically a den of scum and villainy? Absolutely!” said Rowe, Lubbock County sheriff, adding they attract violence, sex trafficking and narcotics. But they don’t agree on a new county ordinance making it harder for game rooms to operate, meant to reduce their “adverse … effects.” Since it took effect, the county has been denying permit…