{"id":790,"date":"2013-02-27T07:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-02-27T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:27:58","slug":"local-civil-liberties-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/local-civil-liberties-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Civil Liberties Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nCouncilmember Posner:<\/p>\n

At the HUFF meeting, members asked you numerous questions.\u00a0 This is a follow-up to those questions and to my previous e-mails and phone calls as well as <\/span>your responses.\u00a0 <\/span>If you find the number of specific questions daunting–please indicate which of these you will\u00a0 prioritize.\u00a0 I believe they are all important and actually only don’t require extensive work on your part.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n1\u00a0 Have any new insulting “Imagine Real Change” meters been set up in the last year?\u00a0 How much money has actually been generated by these meters since they were put in?\u00a0\u00a0 How often were they vandalized and repaired?<\/p>\n

\n2<\/span>.\u00a0 What is the response of the City Attorney to your question about whether the SCPD is being advised to respect the White v. City of Sparks decision protecting artists and writers selling their work downtown? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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3.\u00a0 Please request a staff report on police policies around homeless sweeps–i.e. whether homeless people who they accost\u00a0 in the middle of the night are given a legal place to go sleep.\u00a0 Ask for the specific instructions given to beat officers, any written documents or reports around this practice, and how much money and police time is being spent on this.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Additionally please request a report on property confiscation:\u00a0 what the policy is, whether survival material found at camps left vacant during the day are stored or destroyed (the latter is what is being reported to me),\u00a0 how much property is currently in police impound or storage, and how many trucks full of homeless property have been taken to the dump for destruction–by what agency, how frequently, and at what cost?<\/div>\n

4.\u00a0 I’d also like to see a report on the “addresses” of those cited in the downtown core<\/strong> around such ordinances as the Sitting Ban, the Panhandling Ban, and the Performing\/Tabling Ban\u00a0 (where ‘Ban” means severe restriction).\u00a0 This would go a distance towards indicating whether the chief targets of these laws are homeless or disabled people.\u00a0\u00a0 The City, of course, faces legal vulnerability here, which would be a good motivator to halt such practices.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 What is the status of your public support for Ammiano’s Homeless Bill of Rights?<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Please ask to see the direction given SCPD officers in the downtown core regarding enforcement on MC 5.43.020 (“Move-Along Every Hour if you’re a political tabler, panhandler, artist, or performer”) &\u00a0 MC 9.50.012 (Sitting Ban).<\/p>\n

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7..\u00a0 Are any bikes being delivered to non-profits from the SCPD, either via the Bike Dojo, the Bike Church, or any other mechanism?\u00a0 The response that this issue is “under discussion”–which has been the City’s line for the last year while poor people via non-profits are being denied bikes is not a helpful one.\u00a0 Please provide specifics regarding how many bikes have been delivered in the last six months and then passed on as was previously the case at the Bike Church.<\/div>\n

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Please clarify\u00a0 when and to whom you have made these information requests and send me a copy in writing of such communications.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Thanks,<\/div>\n
Robert Norse<\/div>\n

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