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
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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
No political sign-holding (or homeless panhandling) on medians: new ordinance coming May 14th
The Public Safety [sic] Committee according to today’s Sentinel [http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_23152604/ santa-cruz-police-see-new- interest-after-hiring ] forwarded to the next City Council meeting (May 14) a law which makes criminals out of anyone lingering Continue reading
Sip Soup as you Gag at City Council’s Study Session on Homelessness
| Title: | Sip Soup as you Gag at City Council’s Study Session on Homelessness |
| START DATE: | Tuesday April 30 |
| TIME: | 6:45 PM – 8:45 PM |
| Location Details: | |
| 809 Center St. Santa Cruz City Council Chambers | |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
| Contact Name | Robert Norse |
| Email Address | rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com |
| Phone Number | 831-423-4833 |
| Address | 309 Cedar PMB #14B Santa Cruz, CA 95060 |
| The Santa Cruz City Council has scheduled a Special “Study” Session on Homelessness.THE COUNCIL’S RECENT RECORD Hey, April Fool’s day came and went nearly a month ago! This is the Council that recently voted an Continue reading |
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Upcoming Protest of the American Psychiatric Association’s 2013 annual conference– an Occupy Psychiatry Event.
NOTE BY NORSE; A segment of the homeless population has their status dismissed and demeaned by describing them as “mentally ill” and there are currently bills pending in the state legislature to strip rights from Continue reading
Seattle Police Mock Homeless In Training Video
NOTE BY NORSE: SCPD’s increased crackdown on homeless people in the last year, its tacit participation in the destruction of Needle Exchange, the inflammatory and misleading propaganda spewed out Continue reading
City Council’s “Public Safety” Committee Meets Wednesday 5-1 at 6 PM
The “Public Safety” Update below is from the Public Safety Task Force staff, not from the Public Safety Committee. The Public Safety Committeewhich meets Wednesday at 6 PM is a standing Committee of City Council whose meetings are required to be open to the public and agendaized 72 hours in advance.It’s not clear whether the Task Force, recently Continue reading