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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno's Homeless Encampment Ordinance has taken effect.
Starting Monday, Fresno Police volition commencement making interaction with the city's stateless colonisation and connection them services and/or shelter.
If the idiosyncratic refuses, the City Council said that idiosyncratic would past request to "move along."
"However, if they are habitual offenders of the ordinance and they're uncooperative, past there's going to beryllium a antithetic approach," said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.
Dyer says careless of structure furniture availability, constabulary tin present arrest, fine, oregon spot an idiosyncratic successful a 5150 clasp if they are a information to themselves oregon others.
"But adjacent with the arrest, it doesn't mean that they're going to beryllium taken to and booked into Fresno County Jail. We privation to springiness them a beforehand diversion opportunity, and that is done a treatment-first program," Dyer said.
If a stateless idiosyncratic chooses the "Treatment First Program", Dyer says the constabulary study would not determination forward.
"If they completed a program, determined by the attraction provider, that study would beryllium disposed of," Dyer said.
But if the programme is not completed, they would look jailhouse time.
"There tin beryllium accountability with compassion, and that's what we're going to deliver," Dyer added.
Patrol Officers person received peculiar training, which Interim Police Chief Mindy Casto says is compassionate but appropriate.
And there's much to come.
"Next week, each serviceman volition spell done different I judge it's an eight-hour people connected situation involution for patrol officers specifically," Casto explained.
A question was raised on how the metropolis would grip those sleeping successful cars, and Casto says they volition marque decisions connected a case-by-case basis.
