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The Berkeley City Council banned facial recognition technology from use by any city agencies, making Berkeley the fourth city in the U.S. to do so.
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Berkeley City Council faces a critical crossroads in deciding the future of youth homeless shelters in the city: either lose homeless shelter beds already in short supply or add more adjacent to resistant neighbors.
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A fence with spiked edges has been built around the Here There sculpture on Adeline Street in order to keep people away from the nearby BART tracks, but some homeless activists see the fence as an attack on the homeless community that previously inhabited the space.
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A new public-use, disabled-accessible, portable bathroom was installed in a city parking lot near Alcatraz Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way on Friday after the city received pressure from a nearby homeless encampment organized by the advocacy group First They Came for the Homeless, along with local neighborhood residents and merchants.
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For George Cassity, a member of Berkeley’s homeless population, living without shelter has health repercussions that go beyond those that the average person might experience. Cassity has lung cancer, and one complication of his treatment is that being out in the sun for longer than 30 minutes could worsen his condition.
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