Comments on: Florida House passes bill to prevent homeless people from sleeping in public

By: JZ

JZ — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:55:35 +0000

As for the homeless veterans, the VA claims to be able to do “wonders:”

https://www.floridavets.org/our-veterans/homeless-veterans/

I “wonder” if the help comes with a carve-out for PFRs like their hiring practices do?

By: Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:43:37 +0000

Here is a brief to the Supreme Court in 2019 about a prelude case. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-247/117093/20190925163623017_19-247%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf If you search sex offender in the brief it comes up 10 times. Does FAC plan to brief the court about the stigmatization registrants face on top of being homeless? We could even point to the 2,500 foot rule as to why homelessness is especially high for people in South Florida area and Florida as a whole.

By: Facst should matter

Facst should matter — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:17:20 +0000

In reply to Bwj.

They… don’t want to “address” anything because that would actual involve strategies, solutions and critical thinking skills. That would make them look too sane. No, the Fla lawmakers just want to pander to the insecure and immature voter base through primal hate. They can’t lead without various sub-genres of boogeyman to castigate.

By: Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:12:01 +0000

We are barred from living from 2,500 feet in most localities from anywhere they want to be free of us. I image we will be restricted from living in these camps or even if we will be allowed to stay in the camps it will be in a segregated razor wire section and we will be wearing stripe pajamas.

The Supreme Court hears this on April 22nd. This whole case is on status versus conduct. They want to make it so a pure status crime is an arrest-able offense which in Robertson versus California, said, you can’t arrest somebody for being merely addicted to drugs. However since that time Powell vs Texas said you can arrest someone for being drunk in public. If we win (homeless) it will expand what is cover under a status crime under cruel and unusual punishment conditions so it will have a lower bar to meet if we can get a challenge to argue that the registry is cruel and unusual punishment for the status of being arrested for the crime of registry violations. The sex offender registry is purely a status of one’s crime so this ruling could be very beneficial for us and even more important for the unhoused. My take on reading the briefs

Looking at the briefs they mention s.o. quite a bit as far as status https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/city-of-grants-pass-oregon-v-johnson/

By: It is what it is.

It is what it is. — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:33:32 +0000

Iv worked with homeless over the past 10 years. One thing I’VE encountered is many homeless are actually ex military people. I wonder what happens when they start throwing military vets in jail for being homeless? That should look great on the 6 o’clock news.

By: Bwj

Bwj — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:31:44 +0000

Instead of addressing the root causes of homelessness, the Florida legislature criminalizes it. In Volusia County the First Step homeless shelter won’t accept registrants. So, where are they supposed to go. The unsaid answer seems to be into the branch County Jail.