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Deb Williams <br />From. Jessica Fleming <jfleming@snocopda.org> <br />Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2021 12:55 PM <br />To: DL-Council <br />Subject: NO on CB 2102-06 <br />Hello, <br />CB 2102-06 is inhumane and wrong. We must not criminalize a person's simple existence. Every day people remain <br />u nhoused, this Council fails its community. Renaming the significant inequality in this community ' street -level social <br />issues" is an abstraction that obscures the real humanity of the unhoused people living their daily lives in Everett. <br />Displacing people is not the solution. Increasing law enforcement and criminal justice involvement in problems they are <br />n ot equipped or designed to manage or solve is not the solution. Other cities have dealt with this issue with some <br />success, and displacement and criminalization of unhoused people and the people who help them has never solved this <br />problem anywhere. This proposed ordinance is bad wallpaper over a serious problem. It's easy and it might make <br />certain people feel better in the short-term, but it does nothing to address the real issues underneath. This ordinance <br />will not help get people into good and sustainable housing and will create other problems and expenses down the line. <br />If the Council does not want people in Everett to feel ' unwelcome" as the proposed ordinance suggests, build an <br />e mpathetic community that takes good care of the vulnerable. The money and time that enforcing CB 2102-06 would <br />cost would instead be much better spent on working with organizations already working with unhoused people here and <br />e lsewhere to find a way to provide humane, safe, and sustainable housing to all people in Everett that need it. <br />Sincerely, <br />Jessica Fleming <br />Attorney <br />Snohomish County Public Defender Association <br />2722 Colby Avenue, Suite 200 <br />Everett, WA 98201 <br />425-212-2675 <br />360-206-9786 <br />ifleming(a1,snocopda. org <br />Disclaimer <br />This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named <br />addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you <br />have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to <br />be secure or error -free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain <br />viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which <br />arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard -copy version. <br />1 <br />