No on 302 | Solutions Not Safe Zones

Enforcement-only policies like Measure 302 have a track record of failure: they don't enhance public safety. They don't decrease homelessness. They don't work.

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"Opponents of the Safe Zones 4 Kids ballot measure have argued that residents should be debating ways to reduce homelessness rather than moving homeless people further out of sight [and] sought to try to drive a wider conversation about homelessness."

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We’ll need to show them a thing so hard and complicated, so contentious and time-consuming, so slow-moving and essential: We’ll need to show them a humane approach to homelessness.

Time to work, #Boulder. 7/7

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Months from now, when 302 inevitably fails to deliver on its promises—when Boulder residents experience no appreciable change in our perception of public safety—we’ll need to have something beyond a mythical ‘safe zone’ to show our children... 6/7

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"We can’t continue sweeping away people who have nowhere to go, it’s really that simple. Boulder — but really any Colorado city you can think of — needs solutions to homelessness, not safe zones." https://t.co/zlkk5akmZy via @NewslineCO

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Vote, #Boulder!

[Boulder County Clerk / Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick @BoCoClerk]

Hello @BoulderCounty! It's #ElectionDay!

Vote Centers open til 7 for same-day registration, voting, Spanish-language ballots & more. Or find a drop box to return your ballot. Too late to mail.

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Finally: Return your mail ballot to any 24-hour ballot drop box (do not mail) by 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 7. It is too late to mail your ballot. Find drop box locations on your return ballot envelope or at https://t.co/jK5LnOEv6s

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Vote, #Boulder!

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Voting centers >>

[Boulder County Clerk / Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick @BoCoClerk]

Voter Thread: Vote Centers are open til 6 pm today (Mon) & Election Day (Tues, Nov 7) 7 am to 7pm. Find locations at https://t.co/6T6BnbvW3I Bring ID. ID options at https://t.co/wypr05jpbx

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@compatidude @Doug_C_Hamilton Schools are already prioritized, but not as high as “reports of crime and threats of violence”. Why are we telling the city to invert this

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Read the full piece: https://t.co/V7EnKbY0Pf #NoOn302 #Boulder

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@compatidude @Doug_C_Hamilton Which resources does 302 direct to make this a reality compitidude

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@notnowby Why?

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NEW: “People camping outside near a school doesn’t automatically make them drug-addicted criminals — unless that’s the blanket approach we are going to take with homelessness. That shouldn’t be our official policy.” https://t.co/i12LzDQ5C5

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"Criminalization does not reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness. It breaks connections people had made with providers trying to help & exacerbates homelessness & the conditions that lead to it—such as health problems & racial disparities."

https://t.co/9QIocKymey

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@smith4stevenson The city’s code already makes these activities illegal. If you don’t like how that approach is panning out, why should the city double down on it?

And if the areas of most concern are concentrated, why are we telling the city to prioritize 80+% of the city’s surface area?