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The annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration has drawn thousands of people to the neighborhood streets of San Luis Obispo in past years — but the city and Cal Poly are hoping to keep both students To get the message out there, the SLO Police Department will be using social media through "organic and paid posts" statewide asking adults between the ages of 18 and 26 to not come to SLO during St. Patrick's Day weekend. Officers from surrounding agencies will come and help increase police presence in San Luis Obispo throughout the weekend. Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade 2025 in San Luis Obispo. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2025 in San Luis Obispo with interesting events near you. From parades to pub crawls there is everything that you would want to celebrate this day in San Luis Obispo. The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations have begun. 3:15 a.m. Students are finding their way to the Lower Sports Complex for Morning on the Green – A Mustang Music Festival. The event was organized in partnership with the university and the City of San Luis Obispo. Since then, Cal Poly developed a St. Patrick’s Day Task Force in Oct. 2024, according to Mayor Erica Stewart. While the city and university’s end goal is to completely cancel the event, San Luis Obispo Deputy Chief Fred Mickel said this event plan reflects a realistic timeline to shut the event down in a few years. This week, the topic of St. Fratty's Day and St. Patrick's Day weekend was brought up again with both Cal Poly and the San Luis Police Department working ahead to make sure that weekend is safe. What began as a highly anticipated, university-organized music festival quickly unraveled into a morning of security failures, crowd surges and multiple off-campus block parties — demonstrating the ongoing challenge of controlling St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities. St. Patrick’s Day weekend is here and San Luis Obispo police tell KSBY there are many parties happening in the area Saturday morning near Cal Poly but say it’s “nothing out of the ordinary.” SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Cal Poly and city leaders took some active steps for St. Patrick’s Day weekend in San Luis Obispo, in order to avoid a repeat of last year's rowdy, destructive crowds. SLO is cracking down on St. Patrick’s Day partying this year. Here’s what to know February 29, 2024 9:00 AM Cal Poly St. Fratty’s Day to bring thousands of partiers to SLO streets. Cal Poly students turned out early Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, for St. Fratty’s Day festivities on Hathway Avenue near the university. Marborg employee Bryan Gurrero installs a temporary fence on a house in the Hathway Avenue neighborhood on March 14, 2025, in advance of St. Fratty’s Day in San Luis Obispo. David Middlecamp The annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration has drawn thousands of people to the neighborhood streets of San Luis Obispo in past years — but the city and Cal Poly are hoping to keep both students The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office is joining Cal Poly and the city in cracking down on St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Local St. Patrick’s Day partying, often referred to San Luis Obispo—home to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo—sees a surge in public drinking and partying during St. Patrick’s Day, much like other college towns across the country. To address potential disorder, the city designates a temporary “Safety Enhancement Zone” where: laws are strictly enforced, fines for violations are doubled and law Similarly, the District Attorney’s Office will not offer our pre-filing Misdemeanor Diversion Program to individuals who are alleged to have committed a crime stemming from the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations during the City of San Luis Obispo’s safety enhancement zone between the dates of: March 14, 2025 through March 18, 2025. San Luis Obispo County will declare this year’s St. Fratty’s Day celebration a “mass casualty incident.” Local emergency officials are preparing for thousands of Cal Poly students to flood the streets over St. Patrick’s Day weekend– an event that has led to serious injuries in the past. Cal Poly students turned out early Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, for St. Fratty’s Day festivities on Hathway Avenue near the university. A San Luis Obispo Police Department officer at the Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, A San Luis Obispo Police Department officer at the scene of the St. Patrick’s Day party estimated between 6,000 and 7,000 people in attendance. Hit the San Luis Obispo Thursday night farmers market for a St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt! This themed night at the market will provide kids ages 3-12 with secret clues to find the missing leprechauns hidden down Higuera Street.
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