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Councils get "tough" on pandhandlers; all taxpayers eventually forced to pay up?

By The Blog Team

The Honolulu City Council and the Hawai`i County Council are cracking down on "agressive panhandling." But they're also likely violating the free-speech guarantees of the state and federal constitutions. Thus, they're probably heading down a path that will eventually lead to court losses, just like what happened to the City of Las Vegas in 2006. To cover the costs of these cases, the councils may end up effectively putting their hands out and asking for money from their constituents in the most aggressive form of panhandling that exists (taxation).

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).