Posted on 09/29/2022 11:58:42 PM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have required cities to forgive parking tickets for homeless Californians.
The move was a disappointment for anti-poverty advocates across the state - who have warned that parking-ticket late fees can lead to more debt for already low-income people - and a win for cities that receive revenue from those tickets.
"I am sympathetic to the author's intent to provide financial relief to extremely low-income Californians, but a statewide requirement for parking ticket forgiveness may not be the best approach," Newsom said in his veto message Thursday night.
Assembly Bill 1685 would have required local governments and universities that issue parking tickets to forgive at least $1,500 in fines each year for Californians who prove they are living unhoused.
The bill aimed to block attempts by local agencies to seek collections from the Department of Motor Vehicles, which puts holds on vehicle registrations due to unpaid parking tickets, a policy that can lead people unable to pay to lose their vehicles altogether.
Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy for the Western Center on Law & Poverty, which supported the bill, was surprised by Newsom's decision and called it "a very disappointing veto."
"This is going to mean that people lose their vehicles over minor unpaid parking tickets," he said. "It means they are going to be punished because they're poor."
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Someone should tell this clown that everyone of those people are on the K-mart pay-as-you-can plan.
Last time I drove in California I remember seeing signs indicating $400 fines for improper lane usage. I thought then, and still do, “how can they collect those fines?” That would be a crushing amount for many families.
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Do homeless people tend to have something to park? Obviously, some might have a vehicle, but how many could that be?
In other words... Drug addicts park for free? Can they think up some other ways to F’ California up?
Newsome vetoed it so he can run for preezy. That’s all this is.
All kinds of homeless live out of vehicles. They’re everywhere in LA.
LA is ruined forever.
Yes.
a lot of people are living out of RVs around SF and the South Bay. By the traditional definition, they are homeless.
Hang outside the right bars with parking lots on the right nights and it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
I do wonder how “anti poverty advocates” become experts in the field
I.e., the "drug addict enabler's lobby."
Thnx to all the "legal weed" morons.
The plan is to make them give up their wheels and become 100% dependent...
“Yes. a lot of people are living out of RVs around SF and the South Bay. By the traditional definition, they are homeless.”
Yep...technically homeless, but maybe working at Google or Facebook. The law would have effectively ended parking laws for them too. The problem was going to defining homeless, in the sense that they choose to live that lifestyle (rather than renting a room, for example). It’s kind of like giving ‘benefits’ to same-sex partner - where do your draw the line between being close friends, and being a ‘partner’? I gay you could ask the supposed gay couple to ‘demonstrate’ their gayness, but I haven’t heard of that happening.
Something to park when you’re homeless and don’t own a vehicle: A small posse of roped together, overflowing shopping carts, covered with blue plastic tarp, the tarp, now “baptized” with urine.
The only people who “care” are the parasites who skim all the laws supposedly intended to fix the situation. These are the mini-Me versions of those who vote for Ukraine dollars.
The sorts that work at google or FB are not going to live in late 70’s/early 80’s RVs that look and smell like dumps.
“The sorts that work at google or FB are not going to live in late 70’s/early 80’s RVs that look and smell like dumps.”
Agree, but how does one draw the line without a lawsuit. Most likely that’s what he was thinking.
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