{"id":60600,"date":"2022-10-20T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-unanimously-passes-public-camping-ban\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:32:26","slug":"kent-city-council-unanimously-passes-public-camping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-unanimously-passes-public-camping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent City Council unanimously passes public camping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18, the Kent City Council unanimously passed the camping ban on public property by 6-0. While the council voted in favor of the camping ban changes at an October 4 meeting, this vote is final.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the approved ordinance is to strengthen camping bans on public property in an attempt to clean up homeless encampments across the city. Kent&rsquo;s city staff proposed this ordinance to remove encampments along the Green River, in city parks and near businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a 48 hour notice under the previous city code, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-committee-approves-camping-ban-on-public-property\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the change<\/a> will allow law enforcement officials to remove homeless encampments immediately if located in public areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change allows for the immediate removal of encampments instead of providing a 48 hour notice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":60601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-60600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60600"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=60600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}