Arnold Abbott is in white.

News

• Broward Circuit Judge Thomas Lynch suspends public feeding ban
• City Official News
• Local 10: Mayor's claims about daily homeless feedings in Fort Lauderdale called false
• Russell Brand Weighs In on Fort Lauderdale Homeless Feeding Restrictions
• Jack Seiler says Arnold Abbott, 90-year-old, wasn't taken into custody for feeding homeless

Proponents

• Food Not Bombs (Florida)
• Love Thy Neighbor
  • Arnold P. Abbott
  • Irene Smith
• Commissioner Dean Trantalis - voted against the ordinances

Opponents

• One of the major proponents of the city ordinances was the Fort Lauderdale Woman's Club.
  • Sally Alshouse - interview with Local 10 News can be viewed here.
• Voted for the ordinances
  • Mayor John P. "Jack" Seiler
  • Vice Mayor / Commissioner Bruce G. Roberts
  • Commissioner Bobby B. DuBose
  • Commissioner Romney Rogers

Policies

• Fort Lauderdale passed multiple city ordinances designed to prohibit feeding the homeless in public. Below is sourced from the Sun Sentinel story "Fort Lauderdale commissioners pull all-nighter and approve homeless feeding restrictions"
  • Requiring portable restrooms
  • Requiring portable hand washing stations
  • Feeding sites cannot be within 500 feet of each other
  • Only one is allowed in any given city block
  • Any site would have to be at least 500 feet away from residential properties
• Official Ordinances
• Give Fort Lauderdale

Judge orders 30 day prohibition of ordinances

• Judge tells Fort Lauderdale to stop enforcing homeless feeding law