Sit-lie update and seven year history Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Stephen K. Bushong has ... a sit-lie case being defended by attorney Clayton Lance. “This ordinances has been found unconstitutional on ... to make it fit, and it will never be able to fit, in my opinion.” The sit-lie law prohibits sitting ...
26 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Sit-lie is a gateway drug August 12, 2008 One good dose of this distracting intoxicant and a whole ... Portland’s streets. Yesterday at the public hearing for the city’s sit-lie ordinance (more formally known as ... promised by the city in exchange for the sit-lie ordinance. Several people raised the issue of private ...
12 Aug 2008 - Street Roots
Sisters Of The Road to hold truth commission on sit-lie law Portland, Oregon (July 21,)-- ... Thursday, August 7, 2008, Sisters Of The Road will hold a truth commission on the effects of the Sit-Lie Law ... According to data submitted to the City by the Portland Police Bureau, the Sit-Lie Law has been enforced ...
21 Jul 2008 - Street Roots
Discuss sit-lie at Street Roots blog... Two op-eds in the Oregonian discuss the merits of the ... sit-lie ordinance. One from the very well respected and engaging Central Precinct Commander Mike Reese. ... The Commander argues that the sit-lie ordinance is needed for the communities quality of life. With ...
8 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Road sit-lie Print ... been involved in the struggle to keep laws like “Sit-Lie” and the new “Sidewalk Management Ordinance” ... to walls and shelter will be limited to movement and business activities. If someone needs to sit or ...
26 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
a clear and consistent message that both the camping ordinance and the sit-lie ordinance will not be ... usual. Both the camping and sit-lie laws, coupled with park exclusions (overseen by a private security ... camping ordinance criminalization Dignity Village Sisters Of The Road sit-lie ordinance tent city Where to ...
27 Jun 2008 - Street Roots
Roads' sponsored Truth Commission on the sit-lie ordinance. Around 20 people gave rather emotional ... about why the sit-lie does not protect Portlanders and wastes taxpayer money. One housed speaker told ...
8 Aug 2008 - Street Roots
ordinance, more commonly known as sit-lie for it’s ban on sitting or lying on sidewalks during daylight ...
17 Oct 2008 - Street Roots
next three decades. Crime statistics show that across the country, millions were sitting, lying down, ... for sitting or lying down, and 76 percent for loitering or simply “hanging out.” These were by far the ... communities of poor and homeless people who have been subjected to shame and blame for decades. The sit/lie ...
1 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
anti-panhandling ordinance and San Francisco is proposing a sit-lie ordinance similar to Portland’s, which was ... assault. Among those calls is a report of a “male sitting in front of the café who had been assaulted.” ...
11 Mar 2010 - Street Roots