California Program to Help Homeless Vets Excludes Sex Offenders
It sounds like a great program. Homeless military veterans who have been sleeping in their cars and risking arrest for violating a new law making it illegal to sleep in your vehicle in a residential area overnight, can now park their vehicles in the VA parking lot and get a good night’s sleep and access to bathrooms.
According to California Radio Station WMOT, “Last month, a non-profit group called Safe Parking L.A. partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer 10 parking stalls for vets to spend the night in their cars. The number could expand if there’s enough demand. A security guard and a portable bathroom with a hand washing station are available on site from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., seven days a week.” Another non-profit group, Village for Vets, had teamed up with Meals on Wheels to bring brown bags of nighttime snacks and breakfast food to the cars.
What better way to help those who have served our country and are down on their luck! Except the new program excludes sex offenders.Other crimes are not checked for – in fact, the individual featured in the WMOT story had served prison time – but sex offenders are.
It’s another scenario where a program intended to help people get back on their feet and become productive members of society, is categorically excluding a class of person whose range of offenses is so broad.
If you have an opinion on this or would like to know why, contact Safe Parking L.A. via phone: 213-793-8493 or email: [email protected] if you email, we encourage you to share your letters here.
*** UPDATE FROM MEMBER: I just got off the phone with The person in charge of the safe parking at the VA. He told me that rso ARE allowed to park there but there is a screening process but they are not stop from parking there!***
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It does sound like a great program, but then this …
Except the new program excludes sex offenders. Other crimes are not checked for.
LoL i love all of these stories about hope and in the end all say the same thing “except sex offenders”
Of course they all end that way we cant win a law suit that matters in restoring our rights, Everyone, everywhere treats us like monsters and the laws get worse for us on a daily basis.
when they have us all on an island away from everyone else like they used to do with leper colony’s then and only then will we be left alone
PS also after visiting the camp several times in Miami I know of several veterans that were there. It would be a great idea for Miami VA to do this.
I just got off the phone with The person in charge of the safe parking at the VA. He told me that rso ARE allowed to park there but there is a screening process but they are not stop from parking there!
I’m actually okay with this banishment trend of sex offenders. This inches us closer to total abolishment of registries because this further proves harm of the registry. It seems Florida is getting really good at being Stupid and one day they will begin to hang themselves.
More harm due to the registry
That proves it I put myself in harms way for the citizens of this country and it doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Sir, It DOES mean something !! It means ALOT to many of us !! Just because some people are bent in the brain, Doesn’t mean they all are !! One day things will change !!. Hopefully it will be one day soon, But regardless of anything you’ve “Done in your past” ! I/We GREATLY Thank You For Your Service !!!! Don’t give up on this country yet !! People are starting to see that just because someone has a label, Doesn’t mean their garbage !!. And the ones who do believe that way, There is a special place Deep on the pots of Hell waiting for them !!!. Again, Thank You For Your Service !!.
TOBM You sir are very welcome and thank you