19 abr 2015 ano - Homeless People in Colorado Could Soon Have Their Own ‘Bill of Rights’ .

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Homeless people in Colorado may soon be able to sleep in public without being subjected to police harassment if a new bill discussed Wednesday in the state's legislature comes to pass.

The bill — dubbed the "Homeless Persons' Bill of Rights" — is sponsored by Democratic Representatives Joe Salazar and Jovan Melton, along with Senator John Kefalas. According to the draft legislation, current Colorado laws "result in people in Colorado being criminally punished for doing what any person must do to survive."

The legislators initially introduced the bill in March. It aims to ensure homeless people the right to move freely without discrimination, and to rest, eat, accept food, and maintain privacy over their belongings.

Local laws in Colorado currently make sleeping, eating, and loitering in public arrestable offenses. According to the proposed bill, if these essential rights are violated, homeless people will have the option to seek civil claims and potentially receive up to $1,000 per violation, the bill states.

The bill was proposed just weeks after a report surveyed nearly 500 homeless people in 10 Colorado cities to look at how homelessness has been treated as a criminal activity throughout the state. According to a University of Colorado Denver report, 70 percent of those surveyed had been ticketed for activities relating to homelessness. In addition, 90 percent reported police harassment, while 36 percent said they had been arrested for a crime of homelessness.

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