DeSantis Gets Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public

Florida Politics reports:

The Senate has passed a House bill creating a new financial obligation on localities by banning homeless people from sleeping in public, setting the stage for a Gov. Ron DeSantis priority becoming law.

The measure from Rep. Sam Garrison (HB 1365), passed by a 27-12 vote after being substituted for the Senate version, would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission, compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.

The Governor, who has suggested institutionalization should be brought back, said mental health help for the unhoused is “important,” but that he didn’t want “Sodom and Gomorrah” style homeless camps.

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‘I don’t understand what we’re doing to human beings.’

Senate passes homeless camping ban @GovRonDeSantis wants, despite @FLSenateDems protesting its ‘unfunded $500M mandate’ on localities.

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