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However, what troubles the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is not the potential for visitors to be banned for violating rarely enforced laws. It\u2019s the disproportionate effect the proposed ordinance would have on Las Vegas\u2019 most vulnerable population.<\/p>\n
An ACLU spokesperson told KVVU-TV that it would encourage businesses to report all homeless people and street performers, hoping to either get them banned or locked up for violating previous bans.<\/p>\n
The Clark County law governing the Strip forbids \u201csleeping upon the public sidewalk\u201d and \u201cobstructing, delaying, hindering, blocking, hampering, or interfering with pedestrian passage.\u201d Both laws are used to remove homeless people and street performers. (The Strip lies not in the City of Las Vegas, but the unincorporated Clark County town of Paradise, Nev.)<\/p>\n
The new \u201cstay out\u201d orders would apply to anyone convicted on the Strip \u201cas a condition of a suspended sentence or deferred adjudication of any criminal offense.\u201d The ordinance was introduced by Clark County Commissioner Jim Gordon in response to a 15.8%\u00a0 jump in total crime last year on the Strip.<\/p>\n
Public Reaction Mixed<\/h2>\n
Reaction to the ordinance seems evenly split, at least judging from comments on the news story posted by KVVU\u2019s YouTube channel. YouTube user Sparkytuttle2 wrote: \u201cLet the cops watch for gangs, violent offenders \u2026 and not worry about how shook up the low level offender is going to be at a misdemeanor.\u201d Conversely, YouTube user Keith nol3 wrote: \u201cDon\u2019t break the law and this won\u2019t be a problem for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
A public hearing for the ordinance revision is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 2 at the Clark County Government Center.<\/p>\n
Pedestrian Bridge Ban Tabled<\/h2>\n
Another ordinance, proposed in May by the Clark County Commissioners, would have banned panhandlers, vendors, musicians, and anyone else from loitering on the Strip\u2019s pedestrian bridges, treating the structures as crosswalks. Las Vegas police pushed for the ordinance after an off-duty officer was stabbed to death on a pedestrian bridge in March. However, after closed-door meetings with ACLU attorneys, that ordinance was tabled for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Opening a beer bottle on the Las Vegas Strip could get you banned from the Strip for a year. At least technically it could, according to an ordinance proposed at last week\u2019s Clark County Commission meeting. A little-known Clark County law currently allows judges to ban the drug dealers and prostitutes they convict from setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":223662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,60,13],"tags":[82064,82063,82065,82012,82067,82066],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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