Teens and kids looking to spend some time at the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn have to bring along an adult chaperone.

The policy, which is said to make the mall safer, is drawing some criticism. But some shoppers on Thursday, like Pilar Clark and Jemal Armstrong, said they were in favor of it.

“I think it’s a good idea, because the way stuff with the crime in the city is now, I think it’s a good idea, all of the stuff that’s happening in New York,” Armstrong said.

“It keeps kids from cutting school, and you know, just hanging around in the store,” Clark added. “They should implement that with all the malls.”

A spokesperson for the mall’s management company, Madison International Realty, said in part, “The policy was established to foster a safe environment for individuals, families, and retailers.”

The policy shows up at the end of the mall’s code of conduct. But Target explicitly lays out its policy in multiple places before shoppers enter the store.

“It kind of points to an attempt to restrict a public accommodation based on age without explicitly saying that,” said Camara Hudson, a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Hudson said the mall offers public accommodation with its shops and restaurants.

According to Hudson, the policy could be challenged as a violation of the state’s human rights law, though it doesn’t oppose a person’s constitutional rights.

“A young person who has been banned from accessing a store could make a claim in court or an administrative complaint saying that there was a violation,” Hudson said.

She added the wording of the rule creates a gray area, and these types of age-based restrictions have a long history of being upheld and acceptable.

“It might be something that’s necessary nowadays. It's just what it is,” shopper Vivian Presley said.

While there are shoppers in favor of not seeing unattended kids inside the mall, there are others who wonder where they should go instead.

“I could kind of see both plights, but I just don’t believe that that should be necessary, to stop teenagers from interacting with each other, you know what I mean, in an area that is an open public area,” shopper CJ Williams said.

While there is a ban on minors without adults, the management company adds last year it hosted dozens of family friendly events.