📢 TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Georgia Senator to VOTE NO on HB 295!
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Georgia legislators are launching an attack on our most vulnerable communities punishing people who are unhoused, people who have mental health or addiction concerns, and immigrant communities. Instead of providing much needed funding and resources to support these communities, HB 295 aims to further dehumanize and criminalize them.
What HB 295 Does:
🚨 Incentivizes enforcement of laws that criminalize the homeless population instead of providing real solutions like allocating funds for housing or mental health services.
🚨 Emboldens vigilantism by allowing individuals to submit a claim to their local government if they believe their local government is not dealing with vulnerable people in ways that they deem acceptable and demanding reimbursement for expenses they incur taking matters into their own hands.
🚨 Forces local governments to create harsh local immigration policies just to preempt claims that they have enacted a sanctuary policy.
🚨 Wastes local resources responding to frivolous claims for compensation from individuals. The bill mandates local governments to respond within 30 days by accepting or rejecting the individual’s claim for compensation.
🚨Clogs up the court system by creating a right of action for individuals to sue localities if the local government doesn’t respond within 30 days or if the local government rejects the individual’s claim for compensation.
🚨 Forces localities to quickly and recklessly adopt harmful policies in order to avoid facing claims of failing to enforce existing laws or of maintaining a public nuisance.
🚨Creates an environment of fear that further ostracizes certain communities.
Despite hearing from countless impacted community members and advocates emphasizing the dangerous impacts of this bill and urging a no vote, the House Public Safety Committee passed the bill
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