San Diego Explained: The Homeless Ticketing Ban

Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:48 pm

A key part of the public and government discussion of a new homeless services center downtown is what could happen to change or lift a 2007 settlement that banned San Diego police officers from ticketing people for sleeping on the streets at night.
With our partners at NBC 7/39, we produced this explainer about the homeless ticketing ban and what could be coming next.
A quick heads up: In the segment, there's a map with hypothetical zones when we go into one idea that has been discussed that would divide the city into zones. I just want to let you know the boundaries in the graphic are hypothetical.
Here's the clip:

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