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Wait, what? There was a line in the Berkeley Municipal Code from 1946 that made it “unlawful for any person to loiter about any school or public place at or near which schoolchildren attend”? Apparently so, and although it doesn’t seem loitering laws matter to Berkeley very much–the 1946 code did cause one policeman to recently ticket a disabled homeless woman, Kim Nemirow, as she sat on a blanket in Willard Park.
Thanks to Nemirow’s case, however, the law has been repealed for being vague and potentially discriminatory. After all, as one attorney put it, “What the heck are parks for, if not for loitering?”
Image Source: dannyman under Creative Commons
Outdated Berkeley loitering law repealed [Oakland Tribune]
