Poor Sacramento-area square dancers. They dance at the California State Fair every year. Different callers, different clubs each night. This year, they’ve been asked to dance every night.

They were just notified by the State Fair officials that they have to submit the name of every dancer, caller, and cuer for screening to see if they’re sex offenders under a Megan’s Law-type of thing. Think of the logistics; if it’s anything like the demos we do here in Albuquerque at the New Mexico State Fair, we never know who’s going to show up; we spread the word and hope that we get at least a square. We always do. (That’s not totally true; some of the dancers get Fair and parking passes, so we know who they are. But there are always some who just show up to help out.)

So now the organizers are scrambling to try to get everybody who plans to dance at the fair’s full name and birthdate. I don’t know what they do about people who “just show up” to dance. I guess that’s not allowed any more.