An ordinance aimed at curbing aggressive panhandling on Seattle streets was approved Wednesday by the City Council’s Public Safety and Education Committee.
If passed by the full council, the law would make it a civil infraction for someone soliciting money to block a person’s path, refuse to take no for an answer or solicit from people while they use an ATM or parking pay station, if that solicitation would make a “reasonable person” feel fearful.
The committee rejected amendments by Councilmember Nick Licata that would have delayed enforcement of the law until the city funds expanded police patrols and increases its social-service outreach to homeless people.
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