Monday, July 22, 2013

Tampa Passes New Law To Toss Homeless People In Jail For Sleeping In Public

Tampa Passes New Law To Toss Homeless People In Jail For Sleeping In Public: If homeless people in Tampa want to avoid jail, they’d better find a place to store their things and a bed to sleep in. That’s because last week, the Tampa City Council passed a new ordinance, Item #60, allowing police officers to arrest someone they see sleeping in public or “storing personal property in public”. [...]/p