Fourteen people were arrested on Monday for protesting against the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for withholding information about the casinos that are to be built in their Philadelphia neighborhoods.
The protestors, including two women in wheelchairs, are a part of the Casino Free Philadelphia group, which opposes the new slot parlors in the city and the planned casino projects. They were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
The group attempted to deliver a letter to the regional gaming control board office in the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board headquarters in which they demand information that is withheld on the proposed gambling halls.
About 50 demonstrators, including students from a Philadelphia charter school, attended the nonviolent protest, which, according to one of the organizers of A Casino Free Philadelphia, Anne Dicker, went according to plan.
Doug Harbach, the Gaming Control Board spokesman, said the protesters were not allowed to go inside the agency's offices because they planned to search the offices for documents. He claims that the board released almost all of the material that the protestors want, like transcripts of public hearings on slots licenses and the public presentations by slots applicants.
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