Florida, Florida, Florida.

[Prairie_Seagull]

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/03/20/gov-desantis-signs-bill-banning-homeless-from-sleeping-in-public/

By Shira Moolten | [e-mail] | South Florida Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: March 20, 2024 at 11:41 a.m. | UPDATED: March 20, 2024 at 4:39 p.m.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Wednesday that forbids homeless people from sleeping in public places and prevents local governments from allowing them to stay there unless the state authorizes them to do so.

The governor was joined at a news conference announcing the signing by local South Florida leaders and representatives at Santorini by Georgio’s in Miami Beach. Several compared the issue of homelessness to Spring Break, emphasizing the need for law and order to protect residents and businesses and praising the effectiveness of Miami Beach’s crackdown on visitors this year.

“Ultimately the issue with Spring Break plays into the issue of these homeless encampments,” DeSantis said. “We have to govern this state and our communities with an eye towards what’s in the best interest of the law-abiding citizen … too often people in other states, other cities, they’re not doing well. It’s like they let the inmates run the asylum.”

The bill, HB 1365, prohibits local counties or cities from allowing people to camp or sleep on public property. It allows a county to designate specific areas for homeless encampments but requires them to be certified by the Department of Children and Families, and requires that they operate for no longer than a year.

Can the homeless/indigent ill sleep on beaches or do they need to tie themselves up in trees?

[Lovie777]

1. Well these states have been sending their homeless to other states..............

one way tickets, just like they are sending the immigrants.

[jimfields33]

8. It's not just happening in Florida.

Many localities across the country are passing similar laws.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. They'll come out here to Cali...

And De Santis will then opine on Fox about how messed up things are out here.

[SARose]

3. $577/night room

DeSantis spoke from a Greek restaurant at the Bentley Beach Club at the Hilton Bentley Miami/South Beach Hotel.

Can you get any more cynical than this about homeless people?

[markodochartaigh]

9. Anatole France 1894

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

[EX500rider]

4. "Can the homeless/indigent ill sleep on beaches"

Generally no, most have 11p-5a closed times

[DFW]

5. Well, considering their cast of characters.............

and

[Prairie_Seagull]

6. How is this now law in Florida, HB 1365

How it this law much different than debtors prison without a home or the debt. Square yourselves away,,,,or else.
Answers are needed in our country, but this can't be it.

[Wonder Why]

7. "...It's like they let the inmates run the asylum."

Yeah, Rhonda! Just like the Repug Congress. The country lets the inmates run the asylum. You would expand that to all of government.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Germany did that right before WWII. The homeless in the cities were to be made scarce during the day.

They would go into hiding during the day to give the impression the country wasn't in economic collapse due to WWI and the heavy costs of reparations from it.