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"From restaurants and bars to craft breweries and mini-marts, Californians had plenty of ways to buy and drink alcohol during the just-concluded holiday season.

But as consumer options have expanded, the number of sworn agents who enforce state liquor laws is lower than it was a decade ago.

Agents, charged with preventing underage drinking and enforcing rules against serving drunk patrons, say they now have time to deal with only the worst liquor scofflaws."

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article53038915.html