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26 Feb 2008, 8:38 am
It costs taxpayers about $925 when Sarasota police arrest a homeless person for drinking beer in public or sleeping behind a church.Aggressive enforcement of city ordinances targeting the homeless has led to 1,427 arrests over the past three years, costing taxpayers $1.3 million, an analysis by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune shows.Would the money be better spent building housing and shelters and addressing the root problems of homelessness? [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 7:24 am
"It's potentially significant," Sarasota County Public Defender Adam Tebrugge said. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 4:58 pm
A federal appeals court last year overturned outdoor-sleeping convictions in Los Angeles in part because of that city's lack of housing for the homeless.Read the Sarasota Herald-Tribune story here. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 2:59 pm
Chuck Lesaltato, spokesman for the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 8:38 am
We're here to get results.'
Among others cited by the magazine: John Timoney, who was Bratton's chief of department in New York, who went on to be police chief in Philadelphia, and now holds that position in Miami; Peter Abbott, former head of New York's mounted and administrative units, is chief in Sarasota, Fl.. [read post]
31 May 2007, 10:00 pm
Transsexual fails in bid for another city job Steve Stanton was fired as city manager in Largo two months ago after announcing plans to become Susan Stanton. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 1:01 pm
of the National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty, Michael Stoops of the National Coalition for the Homeless and Chris Cosden, an attorney who is challenging Sarasota's no-camping ordinance. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 5:51 am
See previous post here.The measure was meant to allow officials to steer homeless people who sleep in public spaces to services, city officials say, by giving them the option to go to a shelter or face jail time. [read post]
27 Sep 2006, 6:11 am
Sarasota has created such a board, and in this case, the city's board refused to allow property owners to present evidence that the police had engaged in racially selective enforcement and thereby compromised the drug activity in question. [read post]
14 Aug 2006, 9:46 am
Sarasota's effort to stop homeless people from staying overnight in public places sparked an intense debate about how the city should deal with the transient population. [read post]
