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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A homeless encampment ban set to spell into effect successful the City of Fresno connected Sept. 12 has been pushed back.
According to Fresno City Councilmember Garry Bredefeld, Mayor Jerry Dyer was fixed a fewer days to veto the ordinance and decided not to, moving the day of the ban.
The encampment ordinance is 1 the latest actions the assembly has taken wrong the past fewer weeks targeting the homeless. Last month, assembly members introduced an ordinance to people a increasing squatter problem. Last week, Fresno City Council passed a trespassing ordinance that aims to region radical from backstage property.
In response, section advocates held a assemblage rally successful beforehand of metropolis hallway connected Sunday.
Dez Martinez, an advocator for the unhoused and 1 of the rally’s organizers, said events similar these are important to assistance combat stereotypes.
"We are not that stateless woman. That stateless man. We are human. We're stateless and we're not invisible. And we're bushed of being invisible to the world," she said.
Martinez said the caller ordinances approved by metropolis council, including the encampment ban, restrict options for radical without a home.
"There's really nary spot for immoderate of the unhoused to be, fto unsocial this ordinance that covers the full assemblage of Fresno City," she explained.
The stateless encampment ordinance makes sitting, lying, oregon camping connected nationalist spot illegal. Violators could look a $500 dollar fine. If the discourtesy is ongoing, they could service up to six months successful jail.
Luke Tran with the Fresno Police Department said the caller ordinance gives officers much ineligible crushed to basal connected erstwhile it comes to enforcement.
“Sometimes they had to perpetrate a transgression earlier we could really bash thing similar a superior transgression oregon adjacent possibly conscionable theft. But present we person the ordinance that allows america to determination them disconnected the property," helium said.
The ordinance volition present spell into effect connected September 23.
