On November 25, 2002, plaintiff, a New York-based homeless advocacy group called Picture the Homeless, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as attorneys' fees. Specifically, ...
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On November 25, 2002, plaintiff, a New York-based homeless advocacy group called Picture the Homeless, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as attorneys' fees. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that the City of New York, through the NYPD, developed a policy and practice of targeting homeless individuals for arrest in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plaintiff alleged that the NYPD developed a program of targeting individuals they believed to be homeless for arrest. Specifically plaintiff alleged that the NYPD increased the number of officers dedicated to homeless outreach and instructed the officers that their primary mission was no longer to offer services but instead to arrest the homeless for largely minor offenses.
On April 3, 2003, the District Court (Judge Sidney H. Stein) entered an order that the case be dismissed due to the City of New York's stipulation to issue a directive to the NYPD indicating that officers were not to target homeless individuals for arrest.
Brendan Brown - 10/06/2014
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