[SoFloFreeper]

Update: The Fort Lauderdale City Commission unanimously passed both ordinances on first reading. The second reading will most likely be scheduled for the next commission meeting on May, 6.

[Paladin2]

What?

Are they going to make them sit down first?

[rjsimmon]

Are they going to establish a roving band of folks who will supervise these homeless folks?

[Zathras]

Finally, a job Joe Biden is qualified to do.

[WayneS]

Mr. Poo to the rescue!

[WayneS]

Doesn’t Ft. Lauderdale already have a law against urinating and/or defecating in public?

[Red Badger]

PAGING UNICEF!.....PAGING UNICEF!..............PLEASE PICK UP ON THE BROWN COURTESY PHONE...........................

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I don’t understand what the end result of a law like this is. Sure, you don’t want the homeless urinating in public, but they are homeless and the last time I checked, you can’t stop yourself from urinating. So are the police going to arrest the homeless and put them in jail? Fine them? I don’t see the point.

[R. Scott]

It’s not just a problem for the homeless. The last time I was in Virginia Beach there was just one, ONE public restroom. Every business had a sign saying “restrooms are for customers only.”

[cloudmountain]

Urinating and defecating in public = pokey.
Repeated offenders = more time in pokey, with counseling.

Won't do any good. Those folks, mostly men, have GIVEN UP and are under the thumb of Satan via alcohol and/or drugs.

It's up to them to change their lives. I personally believe that it's never too late to change.

[nothingnew]

"When ya gotta go, you gotta go"

FMCDH(BITS)

[varyouga]

What are you gonna do?

Ticket them? Give them 3 hots and a cot in jail?

The homeless are already at rock bottom and there’s not a damn thing that would punish them.