Las Vegas outlaws feeding the homeless
Good Samaritans beware. The Las Vegas City Council has banned providing free food to the indigent (i.e., the legal definition of the poor) in city parks, so as to eliminate mobile soup kitchens that are frequented by the homeless. As a Nevada ACLU lawyer told me, if you're planning to have a picnic with some friends, make sure you inspect their financial statements first. Jesus would be run out of this city.
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uh, dude? jesus wouldn't be caught dead in vegas. or even back from the dead.
[...] This morning, the injunction against the ordinance banning the feeding of the homeless in public parks, filed by the Nevada ACLU, was granted by a district court judge. Yes, that means that you can again go down to a park in Las Vegas, give a sandwich to a homeless person, and not worry about being cited — at least until the city writes another overly broad ordinance. [...]
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