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The city of Raleigh will delay a planned vote on a teen curfew in order to hold a community meeting next month on teen engagement and a possible curfew.
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The conversation has grown, Mayor Janet Cowell said, and it would be a lot to try to vote on a curfew by Sept. 15, as previously planned.
“I think we all just from that first conversation we had [in August] saw just how big this topic is,” Cowell said at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
She encouraged people to continue to show up and speak at City Council meetings and said there could be additional sessions like October’s community meeting.
The conversation was spurred by the Fourth of July “teen takeovers” that saw thousands of young people show up at Glenwood South and Brier Creek. There were six shootings and dozens of arrests.
In August, the council discussed enacting a curfew for anyone under 18 from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. with a number of exceptions.
The community meeting will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, the Five Points Center for Active Adults on Noble Road.
Tiesha Mosley, the city’s director of community engagement, said the meeting will feature a panel of community leaders and people involved in the issue, as well as smaller groups of people talking about more specific issues.
The city will have registration for the event, but only to gauge how many people will attend, said city spokesperson Robin Deacle. The community center can hold 225 for the meeting, Deacle said.
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The panel discussion will be recorded so people can watch it afterward, but it won’t be livestreamed.
Council member Stormie Forte said the city has to do more to reach the “at-risk” population.
The kids who participate in community events, parks programming and other engagement efforts are not the kids the city is trying to reach, she said.
She asked the city’s parks department and community engagement staff “to really have more synergy with the county and with the school system because there are kids who are being babysat by the street because they can’t go home.”
Council member Christina Jones asked how Raleigh police planned to cooperate with neighboring police agencies, as many people from outside the city attended the takeover incidents.
“I think that’s one of the biggest messages I heard in just speaking with young people,” Jones said. She said young people in Raleigh feel like it wasn’t them and that they’re being punished for something they didn’t do.
Most of those arrested on the Fourth were not below 18, though Police Chief Rico Boyce has said juveniles were responsible for a majority of the shootings and that juvenile crime is on the rise generally.
Boyce said he will be meeting with all of Wake County’s police chiefs Tuesday and will report back.
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This story was originally published September 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM.