Homeless

Homeless people counted by CCTV

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A city council uses surveillance powers intended to combat terrorism to count people living on its streets.

Registry law called 'unfair to homeless'

CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Georgia's sex offender registry law should be struck down because it makes homelessness a crime, a lawyer told the state's highest court on Monday. "The law is fundamentally unfair to homeless sex offenders," public defender Adam Levin argued to the...

• Sex Offender William James Santos: Our Newest Victim - Peach Pundit
• "Registry law called 'unfair to homeless'; Sex offenders are required to list an address, even if they don't have one" - How Appealing

Hospital for homeless moves its own home

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The move was a distance of only 2 miles, but it involved 70 patients on crutches, canes, wheelchairs, and stretchers. They suffered from broken wrists and legs, blindness, severe diabetes, end-stage cirrhosis of the liver, chronic lung disease, and an array of mental illnesses.

Homeless man evicted

NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A state appeals court has ruled that a mentally ill man who is homeless by choice has to give up his $104-a-month rent-stabilized apartment in a dilapidated W. 57th St. building.

Church serving homeless files lawsuit against town that blocked day center

the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A church focused on serving the homeless is suing the town of Elkton, Maryland, because its leaders say the town is hindering the church's expression of faith. Carl Mazza, pastor of the Meeting Ground , says Elkton has blocked attempts by the church to open a day center which would meet a wide range of religious and social needs of the homeless, including Bible study, prayer and worship services, computer...

• ACLU of Maryland Champions Religious Liberty of Christian Ministry for the Homeless in Elkton - ACLU

More on the Homeless in LA

Cobb (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Here is the correct piece of news from the LA Times. The link in that blockquote of Patterico's did not contain the proper information bolstering the arguments I have made on behalf of the police, citizens and businessmen who have...

[Followup] "I guess, practically, sex offenders who are homeless should find places that are near sheriff's offices"

Fark.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Psychotropic:Why not make sex offenders wear GPS ankle bracelets? This way police would know where every sex offender was at every moment.Because the cost of such monitoring would be several thousand dollars per year, possibly tens of thousands, per offender. A proposition passed in California requiring such, although it was so poorly written it didn't state which agency would be responsible for paying...

Georgia Sex Offender Law Could Send Homeless to Prison for Life

R. Enochs, Esq. (Free subscription) | yesterday

I n the State of Georgia if a sex offender fails to register an address a second time, the penalty is mandatory life in prison. Thus, if a sex offender in Georgia is homeless and cannot register an address, they could go to prison for life due to their unfortunate financial situation. This happened to one such person , William James Santos. Last week the Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging...

• Appeal: Sex offender law criminalizes homelessness - Boston Globe

4 men admit to paint bucket attack on Kelowna homeless couple

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

Four Kelowna men have admitted to soaking a homeless couple with buckets of paint in an unprovoked attack on a bitterly cold night last November 21.

Sherri Shepherd and the Homeless Angel

The WOW Report (Free subscription) | yesterday

Seriously, how is it that Sherri Shepherd...

Homeless Widow Fights Terrorism Charge

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Attorneys for a homeless New York widow accused of being a leader of an Iraqi militant group say she is being prosecuted because she taught English. Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, 53, a U.S. citizen, is out on bail and living in a Manhattan homeless shelter.

Secret homeless refuge cleaned out

Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | yesterday

Police and the fire department moved in today on an astonishing homeless encampment that was suspended above Figueroa Street in the ventilation shaft under the...

Al Gore Enlists Homeless as Personal Carbon Offsets

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a compassionate, selfless and ecologically responsible move, former Vice President and environmental leader Al Gore has invited the homeless in the United States to act as his carbon offsets.

Moving day for homeless person encamped on 1st Street overpass

LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Moving day for homeless person encamped on 1st Street overpass

Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Authorities are used to finding homeless encampments around downtown Los Angeles.But then there was the camp discovered today suspended at least 15 feet above Figueroa Street, perched on the scaffolding of the 1st Street overpass.The Los Angeles Fire Department had to use a ladder truck to remove more than a dozen garbage bags of personal belongings -- mostly clothing -- from a makeshift living space....