by Venice Justice Committee
Saturday, May. 08, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Bill Rosendahl Connects Venice Street People To Jail
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According to the City it was not a "Sweep." It was "Homeless Outreach" and the people arrested were being connected to services.
This is preliminary information, but we understand out of the 32 arrests only 1 was released and the rest get their services in jail for the weekend.
The charges were:
LAMC 41.18 d - sleeping on a sidewalk, which is not supposed to be given out between 9pm and 6am according to the Jones decision.
LAMC 63.44 B14(b) - a law that closes the beach from midnight to 5am - that the city did NOT get approved by the California Coastal Commission to even do
LAMC 63.93 h - Says: remain, stay or loiter within the limits of any public library between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. the following day.
Not sure if this law is constitutional. What is a limit and how do they know the people were even at the library the day before? These were people sleeping under the overhang in front of the Venice library.
Also people were arrests based on warrants, like one man who was arrested for some old shopping cart tickets.
