For Kennywood's 123rd season, the park is instituting a new chaperone policy.Beginning at 4 p.m., Kennywood will now require anyone under the age of 17 to be accompanied by an adult chaperone such as a parent, guardian or other supervising adult at least 21 years or older.Chaperones must show an ID with a photo and date of birth.Nick Paradise, Kennywood's communications director, said a chaperone policy has been discussed for years, but the park finally reached a point where it was time to implement one. "People need to feel safe when they come to the park and unfortunately, we know there have been a number of incidents that thankfully there weren't any injuries or anything like that, but cast a negative light, and that's not the type of experience you want to deliver to your guests," Paradise said. During the past six years, Kennywood has had its share of negative incidents and publicity due to unruly guests.Just last summer, seven people were arrested and about 150 people were ejected after fights broke out on a Friday night in July.In July 2019, four people were arrested after a fight resulted in a police officer's nose being broken.In 2017, a man was arrested and accused of a sex act near a 13-year-old and 12-year-old girl. In July 2015, a massive brawl forced Kennywood to close early on a weekend when a young girl was attacked before an officer arrived to break it up.The fight had started in Kiddie Land, but continued at the McDonald's across the street when the 50 to 75 people involved were removed from Kennywood Park.Kennywood officials at that point added more security guards and began discussing a new chaperone policy, similar to a policy they had in place in the 1990s. "Largely, it was unaccompanied minors, teenagers that were at the root of the problem, so we looked at how do you address that? How do you solve that?" Paradise said.While Kennywood security will not actively seek out someone who is underage after 4 p.m. and force them to leave, if a minor is acting up, this new policy will allow Kennywood to act immediately."If they don't have one, then at that point, they are going to be removed from the park and we're going to call someone, have them pick them up and they'll be issued a notice that says they can't come back here," Paradise said.Kennywood will issue a trespass notice, which means that if the minor in question does return, then the park can take it to West Mifflin Police and they will face the penalty for trespassing.Paradise said church, school and picnic groups have been calling, worried the new policy will affect their events.He assured these groups the policy will not impact the groups, as long as there are adult chaperones on the day drip.Since Kennywood Park is allowed, as per state regulations, to open with 75% capacity, groups will be allowed to return. Click here to see Kennywood's summer schedule.