File #: 031105    Version: 1 Name: Amending Police Code Sections 4302 and 4303 to Define Harassment
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Introduced: 6/17/2003 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 8/12/2003 Final action: 8/28/2003
Enactment date: Enactment #: 214-03
Title: Ordinance amending Police Code Sections 4302 and 4303 to (1) eliminate the requirement that before they may be protected from harassment, persons seeking access to health care facilities invoke a “buffer zone” by declaring to protestors a desire to be left alone; and (2) to define harassment of a person seeking access to a health care facility as the non-consensual and knowing approach within eight feet of another person for purposes of passing a leaflet or handbill to, display a sign to, or engage in oral protest, education or counseling with such other person in a public way or on a sidewalk area within one hundred feet of a health care facility.
Sponsors: Aaron Peskin, Fiona Ma, Sophie Maxwell, Chris Daly, Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty, Matt Gonzalez, Tony Hall, Gavin Newsom
Attachments: 1. Leg_Ver1, 2. Leg_Final
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