It could soon be illegal to sit or lie on public sidewalks anywhere in San Francisco, a law Mayor Gavin Newsom says would make city life safer for pedestrians and merchants, but that homeless advocates and others say would amount to profiling against the poor.Newsom will introduce two separate versions of a sit/lie law today at the Board of Supervisors. One version would prohibit sitting or lying on public sidewalks in about 20 commercial corridors throughout the city and is modeled on a similar law in Seattle that was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The other would prevent the behavior everywhere, including in residential neighborhoods, and is believed to be a first nationwide.
I wonder when it will be illegal to defecate and piss in public areas (to which I witnessed on several occasions during my last visit)?
Isn't it kind of funny that out here in my little "redville" paradise, we don't spend on dime on homeless issues and yet we don't have people sleeping in front of every storefront?
Thanks reader Jeremy for the tip.
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