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Auburn City Council OKs 'tough love' for homeless people who repeatedly refuse help offers Matt Markovich, KOMO News reporter Auburn officials mull plan to cite homeless people who repeatedly refuse offer of shelter Replay Video UP NEXT Auburn City Council members voted Monday evening to adopt a so-called “tough love” ordinance that would allow police to issue criminal trespass citations and impose fines on homeless people who repeatedly refuse offers of shelter or services from the city that could help get them off the streets. The measure was approved by a 4-3 as some c...

Auburn council OKs 'tough love' ordinance for homeless who repeatedly refuse help offers Matt Markovich, KOMO News reporter Auburn officials mull plan to cite homeless people who repeatedly refuse offer of shelter Replay Video UP NEXT Auburn City Council members voted Monday evening to adopt a so-called “tough love” ordinance that would allow police to issue criminal trespass citations and impose fines on homeless people who repeatedly refuse offers of shelter or services from the city that could help get them off the streets. The measure was approved by a 4-3 as some cou...

Auburn OKs trespass citations for homeless who refuse help AUBURN FacebookTwitterEmail City Councilmembers in Auburn, Washington, have adopted an ordinance that would allow police to issue criminal trespass citations and impose fines on homeless people who repeatedly refuse offers of shelter or services. KOMO reports the measure was approved by a 4-3 Monday vote as some council members insisted that threats of incarceration would not help those experiencing homelessness. Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus said the intent of the ordinance was not to jail offenders or saddle them with fines they cannot ...

× A ‘homelessness authority’ was supposed to get Seattle and its suburbs on the same page; after a slow year, they may be further apart By Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times Published: January 10, 2021, 6:00am Share: Harold Odom, a co-chair of the regional homelessness authority's implementation board, has been doing his work for the county from a tiny house in Georgetown. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times/TNS) SEATTLE — King County Executive Dow Constantine has been thinking a lot this past year about his first exposure to politics as a child: the Paris peace talks ...