Ashley belongs in jail
for the crime of homelessness.
According to Senator Cyndi Carrasco.
Email cruel Carrasco now and tell her how you feel about her Senate Bill 285
Senator.Carrasco@iga.in.gov
Cyndi Carrasco Loyalty to Lobbyists not Hoosiers.
Cyndi Carrasco Loyalty to Lobbyists not Hoosiers.
Senator Cyndi Carrasco isn’t serving the people, she’s just a puppet to the Cicero Institute an organization that pushes harmful laws. Instead of listening to her community, she parrots their templates, turning policy into punishment. Every copied line shows who she really answers to, and it’s not the voters. Real leadership means standing up for the people, not carrying out the agenda of a group whose interests hurt the most vulnerable.
SB 285 incorporates language and structural elements that are copy and paste with the model legislation developed by the Cicero Institute. The Cicero Institute wins by pushing the homeless into for-profit-prisons, Senator Cyndi Carrasco wins by not having to pretend she doesn’t see the homeless on the street when she pulls up next to them in her shiny new car.
Senate Bill 285, authored by State Senator Cyndi Carrasco in the Indiana General Assembly, is a proposal to ban and penalize people experiencing homelessness for “street camping” or, sleeping or setting up encampments on public land.
What Senate Bill 285 Actually Does
If a person experiencing homelessness is found camping they can be charged with a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine.
Turning the act of sleeping in public, a necessity for people without housing, into a misdemeanor is an attempt to punish homelessness rather than solve it. People who have nowhere stable to go face fines, court dates, and possible jail time simply for existing outside.
Senator Cyndi Carrasco’s Senate Bill 285 provides no funding for improving the lives of the homeless. Just fines and jail times to men and women who already have nothing. It is up to Hoosiers to rise up against cruel Carrasco’s Bill to stop it. Voice your opposition to Senator Carrasco and Senate Bill 285.
Senator Cyndi Carrasco’s Senate Bill 285 does not solve homelessness it puts them at even more of a disadvantage.
Landlords deny applications based on incarceration history.
Fining the homeless $500… common sense says this won’t work.
