@SolutionsNotSZs

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.

 Boulder, CO
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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." boulderreportinglab.org/2023…

City of Boulder votes to pass Safe Zones 4 Kids ballot measure

The measure affirms a city policy to clear our encampments of homeless people. It also sparked a broader conversation around homelessness.

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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’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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"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." coloradonewsline.com/2023/09… via @NewslineCO

Commentary: Enforcement-only approaches to homelessness don’t make us safer | Colorado Newsline

Homelessness appears to many people to be an unsolvable problem. But we have some idea as to what contributing factors increase it.

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No on 302 | Solutions Not Safe Zones retweeted
No on 302 | Solutions Not Safe Zones@SolutionsNotSZs7 Nov 2023
Vote, #Boulder!
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Boulder County Clerk / Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick
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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. Locations at: boco.org/Vote ID options: boco.org/votingid #GoVote
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Boulder County Clerk / Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick
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Voter Thread: Vote Centers are open til 6 pm today (Mon) & Election Day (Tues, Nov 7) 7 am to 7pm. Find locations at BoCo.org/Vote Bring ID. ID options at BoCo.org/VotingID

Ballot Drop-off and Voting Locations

Find out where to register, change your registration, vote, get help, get a replacement ballot and drop-off ballots in Boulder County.

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Boulder County Clerk / Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick
@BoCoClerk6 Nov 2023
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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 boco.gov/Vote
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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." usich.gov/news/collaborate-d…
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Read the full piece: solutionsnotsafezones.org/me… #NoOn302 #Boulder
Daily Camera / Ryan Harwood: We are already living in the 'safe zone' "The reason things don’t feel “safe” is not because you see homeless people, but because we’ve decided, as a community, that visible homelessness doesn’t require a humane response. What a great message for the kids." October 25, 2023 No on 302

ALT Daily Camera / Ryan Harwood: We are already living in the 'safe zone' "The reason things don’t feel “safe” is not because you see homeless people, but because we’ve decided, as a community, that visible homelessness doesn’t require a humane response. What a great message for the kids." October 25, 2023 No on 302

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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.” dailycamera.com/2023/11/06/l…

Letters to the editor: Voting for safe public spaces; Schuchard for City Council; a fresh voice for...

We all know that housing affordability and good, safe transit will always be on any council’s agenda. We must move safe public spaces and disaster preparedness to the top of our priority list. That’s...

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“Proponents further argue that 302 will bring about much-needed transparency to the way the City adheres to its prioritization matrix, but Question 302 does not provide any such accountability mechanism in its language.”
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Fact-checking Measure 302. More here: solutionsnotsafezones.org/my… #Boulder
Claim: Even if it doesn't work, it's important to start somewhere. Reality: Boulder’s camping ban & the ban on prohibited items in public spaces are already on the books and currently being enforced. 302 does not offer a different approach to what’s happening now. NO on 302

ALT Claim: Even if it doesn't work, it's important to start somewhere. Reality: Boulder’s camping ban & the ban on prohibited items in public spaces are already on the books and currently being enforced. 302 does not offer a different approach to what’s happening now. NO on 302

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Enforcement-only measures that simply displace and shuffle unhoused people around the city without providing them with any legal spaces to exist makes no one safer. That's why voters must reject Safe Zones 4 Kids in favor of real solutions. Read the full piece @dailycamera
Daily Camera: Lindsey Loberg, Art Figel, and Stan Deetz: The way we vote is a public expression of our values: How will we choose to respond to increasing housing insecurity, increasing precarity, increasing homelessness? How do we keep one another safe in those conditions? What need is a person trying to fill, for example, with a propane tank at an encampment? And what are we going to do about it? November 4, 2023 No on 302

ALT Daily Camera: Lindsey Loberg, Art Figel, and Stan Deetz: The way we vote is a public expression of our values: How will we choose to respond to increasing housing insecurity, increasing precarity, increasing homelessness? How do we keep one another safe in those conditions? What need is a person trying to fill, for example, with a propane tank at an encampment? And what are we going to do about it? November 4, 2023 No on 302

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