Originally Posted by
reamworks
LAX is one of the few airports that doesn't seem to be able to control aggressive panhandlers on airport property. Even JFK rarely has these any more.
Can't the police work on eliminating this?......
actually, it's been handled....
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar...as26-2010mar26
L.A. can bar Hare Krishnas from panhandling at airports, court rules
The California Supreme Court rules bans on solicitations do not violate state constitutional guarantees of free speech. The ruling covers all cities and counties in the state.
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Los Angeles and other California cities and counties may bar the Hare Krishnas and other groups from panhandling at airports, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday.
The state high court, reviving a 1997 Los Angeles ordinance aimed at LAX, ruled that bans on soliciting at airports do not violate state constitutional guarantees of free speech. Lawyers for Los Angeles said that about 100 individuals representing at least 15 groups solicit money regularly at LAX.
Thursday's ruling is expected to lead other airports to consider ordinances similar to L.A.'s law, which would ban solicitations in the interior terminals, parking lots and adjacent sidewalks.
Airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Diego and California city and county associations sided with Los Angeles in the case. The ACLU sided with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of California, which challenged the Los Angeles law and won an injunction against its enforcement in federal trial court.....