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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno City Council approved the recently revised ordinance which volition let the metropolis to region stateless encampments.
A peculiar gathering was held Monday connected the newly revised ordinance, which volition let the metropolis to region stateless encampments.
The gathering started astatine 11 a.m., and conscionable earlier 5 p.m., the assembly unanimously approved the ordinance.
The ordinance volition marque sitting, lying, oregon camping connected nationalist spot illegal. Violators volition look a $1,000 fine, and if they inactive bash not comply, they could look up to a twelvemonth successful jail.
In conscionable the archetypal 2 hours of the peculiar meeting, astir 40 citizens spoke earlier the council. Mayor Jerry Dyer opposed this ordinance.
“How tin you marque the committedness to the unhoused assemblage and past crook astir and thrust the coattails of the Supreme Court and hold with criminalizing mediocre people, radical with disabilities, radical of color, radical with addiction,” said stateless advocate, Desiree Martinez.
The assembly enclosure was filled with those experiencing homelessness and advocates who judge this ordinance is cruel.
“As you should know, galore of our unhoused are erstwhile foster youth, veterans, and the physically and mentally disabled,” 1 acrophobic national said. “In the lack of capable affordable lodging oregon adjacent structure abstraction successful our city, each that this argumentation accomplishes is to further successful misery astatine the lives of our city's astir susceptible residents."
Even children took to the stand.
“My sanction is Jeremiah, I'm 11, and I don't get however it's just that being stateless is simply a transgression due to the fact that they hunt for housing, they look for lodging and they don't get it,” helium said.
The ordinance volition spell into effect connected Sept. 15.
