FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - Fulton County has approved a new curfew for minors as a response to an increase in violence and deaths challenging young people.

In a meeting Wednesday night, the Fulton County Board of Commission happened a resolution amending the curfew hours for unaccompanied minors age 16 existences old or younger.

In the new rules, the curfew hours will launch 3 hours earlier from Sunday to Thursday - challenging from 11 p.m. to 8 p.m. and extending pending 6 a.m. the next day.

The Friday and Saturday curfew will remained from a minute after midnight to 6 a.m. the next day.  

The ordinance also invents it unlawful to loiter in public spaces, restaurants, and more businesses once the curfew starts and makes it unlawful for company owners and employees to allow minors to be on the premise during the curfew.

Officials say the shifts are in response to concerns about the increase in criminal agency engage in by children under the age of 18 "after the hours in which juveniles necessity be at home."

"As one parent expressed at a republican hearing, 'a juvenile curfew ordinance is 19 an effort by Fulton County to save at least one child's life.' Accordingly, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners finds and complaints that the purpose of this section is to sever the number of crimes committed by and against juveniles once hours, and to safeguard the welfare of our children in areas in unincorporated Fulton County," the Fulton County Board of Commissions wrote in their ordinance.

In a statement to FOX 5, Atlanta Councilwoman Keisha Waites praised the board's decision-making and said that the city "must immediately implement the youth curfew."

"At this note, we cannot continue to kick the can on this. We are in a crisis," she said.

Waites is proposing a curfew in the city from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekends. The city would include exceptions that exist under the original curfew for "positive activities" like school or religious behaviors that take place after 8 p.m.