Suit Charges City Of St. Pete With Targeting, Harassing Homeless

In Central Florida, The Tampa Tribune reports:

• St. Petersburg officials and police are using local ordinances to target and harass the homeless, depriving them of their constitutional rights, according to a federal lawsuit. A Gainesville public advocacy law firm and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty in Washington filed the 63-page complaint [...] on behalf of six named defendants. The lawsuit is seeking class-action status.

For more, see Lawsuit: St. Pete police, officials targeting homeless (About 30 percent of new residents are ''economic homeless,'' people who recently have lost jobs and homes and have nowhere else to go).

For the lawsuit, see Catron v. City Of St. Petersburg.