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Abstract This study aims to analyze the actions of the public power towards private leisure establishments (dance clubs) in the scope of legality, after the disaster at KISS Nightclub. We used as a way the Document Analysis (Complementary Law nº 14.376, of December 26, 2013, the Police Investigation of the KISS Nightclub and the print media Diário de Santa Maria) and the Content Analysis. We inferred the mobilization of the public power, after the disaster, in the creation of legislations that would guarantee safety in the dance clubs, especially the Kiss Law, as well as its flexibility, explaining that the economic system and private interests are benchmarks of politics and of the relations between the public and the private. The KISS Nightclub disaster registers the seriousness of risks in the leisure sphere and in the technologies that incite desires, and the need to guarantee social rights and social equity.

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