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Article: Downtown church that caters to homeless declared a nuisance
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2002
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Downtown church that caters to homeless declared a nuisance
By TOM KERTSCHER of the Journal Sentinel staff
Tuesday, September 3, 2002
In what is apparently the first action of its kind in Milwaukee,
the police department has declared a downtown church a public
nuisance, which means the church will have to begin paying up to $275
each time police are called to the property.
Police took the action because St. James Episcopal Church allows
the homeless to sit outside the church during the day and sleep on
its front lawn overnight. It is generally legal for the homeless to
be on the property because the church has given its permission, but
police say the practice has created a nuisance because ...