Nawdy Little's 16-year-old son Bryson was one of the many attendees at Saturday's Oyster Festival in Arcata. However, Bryson told his mom after the event, that he was given a 21+ wristband, which could be used to buy alcohol at Oyster Fest.

"He's like, 'I walked in, I put my arm out, and they put a wristband on me.' There wasn't, 'how old are you,'" Little said. " Hopefully, no, minors actually were served alcohol."

Others on Facebook expressed the same concerns about their teen or young sibling also receiving the same wristband.

"He had no intentions of trying to drink, but he, he kind of showed concern about it, you know, about how many other kids, you know, may have had access," Little said.

Now, Nawdy is demanding answers as to how this could have happened. North Coast News brought those concerns to Arcata Main Street Board President Alex Stillman.

"Maybe people got confused with which one was which — not the people that were providing alcohol, or the people that were giving the wristbands, but maybe the citizens themselves," Stillman said.

Stillman claimed those comments were the result of people getting wristbands mixed up, however, North Coast News explained Little sent a photo of a 21+ red wristband.

"Well, that would have been a total error and I don't know how that happened," Stillman said. "If that happened, it was an error that was not intentional and of course, we wouldn't want that to happen at all."

Stillman went on to say organizers are still debriefing on this event in order to figure out their plans for future events. Both the Arcata Police Department and Humboldt County Sheriff's Office told North Coast News they did not receive any call related to 21+ wristbands being given to teens, but the HCSO did receive a Facebook message about it from a concerned resident.