Pennsylvania Adds 19 People on Involuntary Exclusion Lists

Pennsylvania has extended its various involuntary lists with 19 additions of people who have been found of different breaches of the state’s gambling, criminal, and civil laws.

The latest enforcement action has put the total number of people to have been excluded by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to 1,363 people, specifically across the state’s Involuntary Exclusion Lists.

PGCB Pushes List of Involuntary Excluded People to 1,363

The bans are usually final, and they restrict players from visiting gambling venues, such as PGCB-licensed casinos or video gaming terminal locations, as well as online gambling websites regulated under the state’s gambling statutes.

Two of the offenders were sanctioned for leaving minors unattended while they ventured inside a state-based gambling property to play games of chance or place wagers. A man left his children outside the Valley Forge Resort Casino for nearly an hour. The children, who were 8 and 13, were found in a vehicle in the parking lot.

Another case concerned a woman who left her eight-year-old unattended in a hotel room at the Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia for more than an hour while the person gambled at the casino’s slot machines.

The PGCB has moved proactively to add eight people to its Involuntary Casino Exclusion List citing their criminal records and past as reasons why they should not be permitted onto gambling venues in the state.

Another nine people were banned under the Unvoluntary Interactive Gaming list, with the regulator citing fraudulent offences perpetrated by the individuals.

The PGCB does not share the names of people who have self-excluded to limit or restrict their gambling activities, but the regulator takes the opposite approach with people who are placed on its Involuntary Exclusion Lists.

Individuals with Criminal Pasts Not Welcome

In those instances, the regulator publishes images and the names of the people targeted by the measure to ensure that gambling properties in the state would deny them entry and be aware of their past transgressions in on-site gambling locales.

The PGCB has similarly denied the request by a woman to be removed from the Involuntary  Casino Exclusion List. She was placed on the list back in 2022 after she was found guilty of leaving three children, aged 10, 14, and 15, unattended in a vehicle parked in the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course for nearly two hours.