Back after a few days,I thought this would be interesting to discuss.Last month,the city of Atlanta attempted to pass a 'banishment ordinance'preventing convicted prostitutes,pimps and customers from returning to certain areas of the city for any reason.Georgia is a state with a reputation for such activity--its rural counties often enact temporary 'banishments' on drug offenders and even shoplifters.This time,the banishment idea came from the Atlanta police chief and city hall pounced on it in support.Now this isn't a permanent banishment,of course,but it does last to up to 165 days which is found nowhere else in the country.This had a sizeable protest in response---activists filled city hall sessions on this bill and in the end got it dropped out of consideration at the end of the month.City hall responded that it would form a task force to study the 'problem' of sex work.Another way of saying they'll try to find another way to get what they want,if possible.

This is an example of violating constitutional rights of people they don't care for and 'move the problem' around to other areas.

Pesky mousqitos!  Where's the Off! when you need it?

It's in a really fucked up part of the country where you got a supermajority of religious wingnut GOPers controlling things.Hell,the Georgia legislature has endorsed a resolution to abolish the 17th Amendment any way they can just the other day.

The whole idea has been hobby horse of the extreme right... (I am paraphrasing...of course)

The whole thing is ass backwards....I never really understood why direct election of US Senators is not protecting the states rights, and appointment of senators by state legislature is...

May be someone wants to shed some light....

It isn't just that,it's one of numerous examples of insanity.There is also some Republicans that want to get rid of the 16th Amendment and rewrite the 14th Amendment so children of illegal immigrants born here aren't citizens.God,look at the Georgia U.S. Senate primary race between four candidates where one agreed with Todd Akin about his views on rape,another candidate calls evolution and the 'Big Bang Theory'-- "lies from the pit of hell",and another candidate accused Obama of shakedown politics after BP set aside $20 billion for the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill.

and their johns.  But yea fucked up idea nonetheless.

it sounds unconstitutional to me, but then again we do have curfew laws, and we have stalking laws that's prevent certain people from going to certain places. I believe we also have laws that prevent pedophiles from going near public schools.

It would be interesting if someone with a law background could comment on this.

As far as I can tell,this is aimed at EVERY type convicted of prostitution--even those convicted in sting operations off the street and inside their motel rooms or homes.

I'm not a lawyer,but it's commonplace in the state of Georgia where its surrounding rural counties do implement local ordinances banishing repeat drug offenders,shoplifters,etc. so they have a precedent to go on.The political reality is different because Atlanta has a diverse population,as with any other major U.S. city,compared to the mostly white,conservative population of rural Georgia.That's the reason they dropped it due to that dynamic.