Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces.
In all, 34 laws that passed during the 2024 legislative session are now in effect, with the homeless changes (HB 1365) drawing the most attention. "Florida has chosen to reject comfortable inaction and tackle this problem head-on," House bill sponsor Sam Garrison said in June after the U....
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The poor must work for this, in presence of the majestic quality of the law which prohibits the wealthy as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges, from begging in the streets, and from stealing bread… Today at the U.S. Supreme Court: Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness...
Meanwhile, scaling back “draconian” state parole laws is also high on the ACLU’s list of priorities, Randol said. The issue came to the fore earlier this year when rapper Meek Mill was released from prison, where he’d been after a parole violation arrest. ...
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Other cities are passing these laws because they do not want homeless people congregating in city centers where they know that they will be fed. But at a time when poverty and government dependence are soaring to unprecedented levels, is it really a good idea to ban people from helping ...
Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Nevada, Kansas, and California harbor cities that are what the United States would consider to be the "meanest cities" in regard to homelessness (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2006). Laws for these areas include, but are not limited to: (a) an individual...
Under Runyan’s “Emergency Homeless Response” plan, homeless-looking people in the city’s 36-block downtown district will be asked by police to move to a shelter on the outskirts of the Columbia. If a person refuses, they could be arrested on a range of public nuisance laws. ...