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County Takes a Shot at Panhandlers – and Misses

ByWarren Redlich

Update: The County Commission passed the ordinance at its meeting on June 23rd. Here’s the pdf of the agenda item: [gview file=”https://westbocanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/4C.pdf”] The Palm Beach County Commission is getting closer to an ordinance that would ban panhandlers and others from standing in roadway medians. On the agenda for May 19th is a “preliminary reading” of…

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Panhandling: How the City of Boca Raton Does It

ByWarren Redlich

Update: At bottom we’ve posted a federal case that upheld Pembroke Pines’ ordinance against panhandling and similar behavior. In our recent article on panhandlers, a lot of readers have asked why we don’t see them in the city of Boca Raton. The city adopted specific ordinances to deal with the problem, and not just panhandlers….