Tuesday, February 16, 2021
by Joe Byrnes (WMFE)
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An excerpt from Ocala's open lodging ordinance cited in a federal lawsuit.
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The Ocala City Council on Tuesday will consider changing its open lodging ordinance after a federal judge found part of it unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union and others sued the city on behalf of three men for “criminalizing homelessness.”
The ACLU of Florida says the men had been arrested repeatedly. One had spent 219 days in jail and was assessed more than four-thousand dollars on 10 counts of violating the ordinance.