People lying on public sidewalks in New Orleans may face jail time as police ramp up enforcement of a long-standing ordinance prohibiting the practice.
The shift comes as the New Orleans Police Department struggles to tackle homelessness in the French Quarter, 8th District captain Samuel Palumbo said at a neighborhood meeting on Monday.
“People just don’t feel safe when people are blocking that area,” Palumbo told commissioners of the French Quarter Management District at a Security and Enforcement Committee meeting, noting that there have been “repeated offenses of just lying on the public sidewalk.”…