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Council hears revised solicitation ordinance; legal counsel flags First Amendment limits and enforcement issues
Summary
City legal counsel presented a comprehensive revised solicitation ordinance and warned that First Amendment case law (including panhandling decisions) constrains enforcement and exemptions; council debated age exemptions, criminal‑history disqualifiers, administrative revocation, and hours of solicitation.
City legal counsel presented a broad rewrite of the solicitation ordinance intended to cover transient merchants, itinerant vendors, peddlers, panhandling and related activities. Counsel prefaced the discussion by saying much of the regulation is constrained by First Amendment decisions and that the draft emphasizes implementation discretion where the law allows.
Counsel said: “Probably my answer, to the…
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