criminalize

“These people are patrons too and this comes across as another step to criminalize homelessness,” Moreno said.

In the summer of 2023, Arbit was waylaid by a right-wing campaign that reduced his detailed proposal to “the pronoun bill” by spreading the debunked idea it would criminalize misgendering someone.

She insisted in a statement that the charges against her are “purely political” and “meant to criminalize and deter legislative oversight.”

Within a few years, cannabis was criminalized, and the mandatory sentences mandated by the Boggs Act ensured that people arrested for possession faced a minimum of two to ten years of incarceration.

It moves California one step closer to criminalizing homelessness, no matter how softly or deftly he packages that truth.