Prevent underage intoxication and potentially save lives

With schools out for summer for many teens and children, the risk of them gaining access to alcohol goes up when parents are at work and teens may be unsupervised.

Minors often get alcohol or marijuana in one of these ways: from older friends, strangers willing to buy it for them, store clerks who fail to check IDs, online, friend's parents and sometimes their own parents.

The Sheriff's Department is reminding adults that it is against the law to provide alcohol or marijuana to minors, host underage drinking parties and to allow minors to drink or use marijuana.

"The Sheriff's Department takes...