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City Closes 6 Businesses After Violating Stay At Home Orders

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Four locations of two competing crafts stores and a vape shop are among those businesses closed after violating the Safer At Home order, city officials said Monday.

Hugh Atkins, Metro Nashville’s director of environmental health services, said the six businesses were all cooperative so no citations were given. However, the city has teams of inspectors and officers visiting businesses to make sure they’re following the order. Atkins said they’ve inspected 62 businesses since April 1.

“We will issue citations if a non-essential business, such as a bar, is operating,” Atkins said, though none have been issued yet, he said. It’s a $50 fine as well as another $50 for each person at the business at the time of inspection.

Metro is asking people to submit complaints through the hubNashville website or by calling 311.

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Meribah Knight is a senior reporter and producer at Nashville Public Radio. She’s the host and creator of the Peabody Award-winning podcast, The Promise as well as Serial’s recent podcast The Kids of Rutherford County.

Her reporting on race and inequality in public schools prompted a wholesale shift in enrollment and attitudes toward school choice in one Nashville neighborhood. And her reporting on the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tenn., led to the retirement of its juvenile judge and new oversight of its juvenile detention center.

Knight has received numerous national awards for her reporting, including the George Foster Peabody Award and the George Polk Award. Knight was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Goldsmith Award, and twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Knight received her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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