A loose-knit group organized through the social networking site Facebook has sprung up in recent weeks to help keep the consumption of beer legal at Kate Sessions Park. Pacific Beach resident Ed Scallion started the fan page and group “Save Kate Sessions Park from Another Unnecessary Booze Ban” in late February. He started it after throwing a party celebrating his nephew’s birthday, he said. The party, which had live music, drew hundreds of people to Kate Sessions Park and several complaints from nearby neighbors. Scallion said his party was permitted until 6 p.m. and that police started shutting the party down a half hour early. Those who attended the get-together, he said, did so peacefully. “Where are we relegated to when we can’t afford multi-million dollar mansions,” he said. “[We’re] only left with Kate Sessions.” Scallion said he started the group and fan page on the social networking site as part of a campaign to keep the alcohol ban away from Kate Sessions Park — one of the few public spaces left in the city where people can still have a beer without breaking the law. Scallion planned to address the Pacific Beach Town Council at last night’s Town Council meeting. More than two years after the beach alcohol ban first hit the sand, issues involving a number of intoxicated persons persist. “Typically, when you ban alcohol for one area, it moves to another,” said Northern Division Capt. Chris Ball. “So, sometimes we’re still dealing with the same problem, it just relocates to another area. And that’s what we may be seeing at Kate Sessions.” Community discussions over Kate Sessions Park and large “floatillas” in which hundreds of partiers take to Mission Bay on inner-tubes, boats and other floating rafts have popped up since the ban took effect. Consumption of alcohol is banned on the shore, so some take to the water just feet from the sand. Many residents turn to police and lifeguards when things get out of hand. “It’s not really for the police department to decide where alcohol should or should not be,” Ball said. “We just enforce the laws, not make them.” Making the laws should be done through city’s lawmaking process, he said. District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer’s office first backed the move to ban alcohol at the beach in 2007. Now, however, it’s up to the local community to figure out a solution to any problems at the “local level” before taking it up with the City Council or expanding the citywide ban, said Tony Manolatos, Faulconer’s spokesman.