Litigation
Mar. 29, 2007
Community-Courts Conference to Address Homeless Services
LOS ANGELES - The role of criminal courts is to hold defendants accountable when they commit crimes. But if the crime is sleeping on the street because you don't have a home, should the courts act as social worker?
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The role of criminal courts is to hold defendants accountable when they commit crimes. But if the crime is sleeping on the street because you don't have a home, should the courts act as social worker?
Increasingly, cities across the nation are saying yes.
"The courts can do things no one else ca...
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