SOCB51H3 : 'Disorderly People" ARTICLE
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2001 news showed 13 people, most of them squeegee workers , had been convicted in. Lawyers defend it is unconstitutional providing police w/ powers of how 19th c vagrancy laws were used to punish/imprison people. The safe streets act is an aggressive example of anti-home-less and panhandling legislation. Center maintained that the by-law is an unjustified infringement of freedom of expression. Safe streets act came into effect year 2000, this was the first time a modern provincial government has enacted a provincial statue (as opposed to a local municipal by law) against begging conduct in public space. Unlike most municipal by laws which tend to prohibit alms giving in the most general wy, the. Safe streets act is both extraordinarily detailed and at the same time vague and sweeping. The two main anti-begging sections of the act prohibit soliciting in an aggressive manner and soliciting a captive audience .
