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Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 5:45
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Subject: [CTRL] REU: Alberta to license
beggars
-Caveat Lector-
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Posted
at 7:35 a.m. PST Sunday, March 25, 2001
Spare change? not without the
proper ID
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Hey, buddy -- one of
Canada's richest cities could soon force its panhandlers to wear
photo identification as a way of controlling a handful of beggars
who hound passersby for spare change.
City council in Calgary,
Alberta, the country's gleaming oil-industry center, votes April 2 on the
plan that would require panhandlers to agree to a code of conduct before
they are granted ID badges allowing them to hit people up for coins
and cigarettes.
``It's intended to reduce any potential disruptive
behavior or harassment or confrontations with the public,'' said
city councilor Bob Hawkesworth, vice-chairman of the committee studying
the proposal.
The licensing scheme, based on the ID tags charity
fund-raisers wear when going door-to-door, would also require panhandlers
to undergo counseling and job-search workshops.
The western Canadian
city of almost 900,000 people has relatively few beggars compared with
other major metropolitan areas. About 40 regulars are said to dot the
downtown core, although numbers swell in the summer. Only a fraction are
known as aggressive.
Calgary passed a bylaw last year prohibiting
panhandlers from plying their trade near transit shelters or automatic
teller machines. This year, the committee sought other ways to
tackle the problem. It even held panhandler focus groups.
``That's
the genesis of this idea. It came from those discussions as another way to
address the problem,'' Hawkesworth said.
Some panhandlers expressed
skepticism over the plan.
``You give some a license or a card, that
darn well won't stop other guys from putting their hand out,'' David Young,
44, said after extracting some change from a pedestrian on
Friday.
``The panhandlers that do have a license, they're not going
to say, 'Hey, get out of here. We're calling the cops.' That's just not
done on the street,'' added Young, who said he had lived on the streets of
Calgary for 20 years.
One concern among city council members is that
licensing may be construed as condoning begging, Hawkesworth
said.
``That's a reservation I have about this approach. This
concept suggests that we try it for a year and see if it has any good
or bad impact and evaluate it after a
year.''
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