Subject: [OSCMediaGroup] Homeless Persons Bill of Rights: Action NeededMuch support was felt at Occupy Santa Cruz’s general assembly on Sunday, April 22, 2013, for people who are homeless in Santa Cruz County.People from the Visible Sleepers’ vigil at main Post Office plaza shared their Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Sane Solutions in Seattle–How About Santa Cruz?
Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million
By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Nathaniel Porter, one of the residents of 1811 Eastlake, a home for people with chronic alcohol addiction, shows off Continue reading
Expensive First Alarm Thuggery in Santa Cruz
NOTES BY NORSE: Often harshly critical of HUFF, Razer Ray can be scathing and incisive in his analysis of homeless-targeted Continue reading
While Santa Cruz library system cracks down, North Carolina takes a different road
NOTE BY NORSE: At of the HUFF hat to John Colby for this story. What a contrast with the Santa Cruz library system. Santa Cruz County anti-homeless library policies have recently been stepped up to ban sleeping Continue reading
Public Hysteria Task Force Has 1st Meeting Tonight 6 PM Tony Hill Room Civic Auditorium SC
by Robert Norse
Tuesday May 7th, 2013 9:24 AM
Tuesday May 7th, 2013 9:24 AM
The “Public Safety” Task Force, hand-picked by Mayor Hillary Bryant, has its first meeting tonight at 6 PM in the small Tony Hill sideroom at the Civic Auditorium on Church St. across from City Council chambers. According Continue reading
Public Hysteria Task Force Has 1st Meeting Tonight 5-7 6 PM Tony Hill Room Civic Auditorium SC
The “Public Safety” Task Force, hand-picked by Mayor Hillary Bryant, has its first meeting tonight at 6 PM in the small Tony Hill sideroom at the Civic Auditorium on Church St. across from City Council chambers. According Continue reading
Public Safety Task Force Meeting & Public Records Act Request
Hillary:Thanks for your reply to my e-mail (hopefully it will be available as a Public Record should anyone else want to access it).
I did speak with Scott yesterday who says Continue reading
Updates on the California Homeless Bill of Rights (AB5)
NOTES BY NORSE: Santa Cruz’s reactionary City Council is moving in the opposite direction–to remove basic human rights from homeless people and shuffle them out of sight. A bill coming up on May 14th at City Council would make it illegal to linger or loiter on the median strips in the middle of roads, where you Continue reading
2 New HUFF resolutions from May 1 2013 meeting
HUFF met at the Sub Rosa Café on Wed. May 1st and passed the following 2 resolutions:
Resolution re: SCPD Officer N.Vasquez Badge # 145
After reviewing a videotape of an April 22, 2013
incident on Pacific Ave., we call Continue reading
Monterey to Discuss Santa Cruz Abuse Sitting Ban Law
NOTES BY NORSE: Using euphemisms and pretexts like “public safety”, “quality of life” “bad behavior”, Santa Cruz mad steadily intensified its anti-homeless Sitting Ban over the years.
The current Santa Cruz law prohibits sitting down on the sidewalk “In the C-C community commercial, C-N neighborhood commercial,C-B commercial beach, CBD central business district, and R-T tourist residential zoning districts, (a) At any bus stop; (b) Within 14′ of any building. Where any portion of a building is recessed from Continue reading