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The Portland City Council is considering extending the city's controversial sit-lie ordinance.
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The sit-lie ordinance is another way of criminalizing homelessness.
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In no one way do I mean to compare any of you to the segregationists of old but the sit-lie ordinance and other laws specifically directed at people who are homeless fit in the same category as those laws used here in Portland and across the nation to punish people based on the color of their skin.
Portland 2010
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So much for finding a new solution for the sit-lie ordinance.
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The sit-lie ordinance is another way of criminalizing homelessness.
Portland 2010
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The Portland City Council is considering extending the city's controversial sit-lie ordinance.
Portland 2010
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Seventy-one percent of voters backed the sit-lie ordinance in a poll conducted by David Binder Research in February, compared to 24% who opposed it.
San Franciscans Try to Take Back Their Streets Heather MacDonald 2010
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But the sit-lie law is about more than business viability, however important such viability is to a city's lifeblood and energy.
San Franciscans Try to Take Back Their Streets Heather MacDonald 2010
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By late 2009, community frustration with the aggressive behavior led the police captain in the Haight district to propose a "sit-lie" ordinance to ban sitting or lying on city sidewalks from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
San Franciscans Try to Take Back Their Streets Heather MacDonald 2010
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“There will be no ‘son of sit-lie,’” Fish said this week.
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