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homeless vs the "sit/lie ban"
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkb...nment-says

...when adequate shelter space does not exist, there is no meaningful distinction between the status of being homeless and the conduct of sleeping in public. Sleeping is a life-sustaining activity -- i.e., it must occur at some time in some place. If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless.

Thus far, it's just a DOJ "statement of interest" in an obscure case in Boise, ID ... but it's going to have a very interesting impact on any laws that apply to the homeless.
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