ADVOCATES FOR the unhoused say Rhode Island's "Homeless Bill of Rights" should have protected those camped out on the Statehouse lawn last month when Gov. Daniel J. McKee ordered them removed from the grounds. A Superior Court judge sided with McKee. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN
Rhode Island’s adoption of a “Homeless Bill of Rights” may have won state leaders praise when it was passed in 2012, but the weakness of the law was exposed when an encampment of people without homes was removed from Statehouse grounds last month, advocates for the unhoused say. The homeless bill of rights was seen…
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If you mean abolished, then the answer is “YES!”