The Fresno City Council on Thursday is expected to adopt a handful of changes to city code, with most aimed at granting the Fresno City Attorney more power to pursue legal action against violators of its anti-encampment law.
The updates to city code will come through a single item with sweeping consequences, which passed its first hurdle for approval at a council meeting earlier this month. That meeting saw the changes approved through a procedural vote.
The item includes language to codify loitering as a violation of the law, and will add an amendment to the original ordinance that would grant the City Attorney with tools to more easily place misdemeanor charges against repeat offenders of the city’s ordinance…