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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Recently, Bass and her team have been strategizing with the police, recreation and sanitation departments and working with supportive housing providers. Theyre deeply rooted in poverty, homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, a low-wage economy, cheap and powerfully destructive drugs and gang-controlled criminal enterprise.

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Macrofortification

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But it's an indicator that present laws, regulations, and public safety enforcement and protection systems aren't working, when citizens are driven to extrajudicial measures such as these. The way that the areas become extremely degraded because of lack of care and sanitation around the RVs now is why people are up in arms.

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Overcoming the Digital Divide: Lessons State and Local Governments can Learn from the Hospitality Industry

Government Technology Insider

With so many facilities under their purview–from courthouses and law enforcement/public safety facilities to waste removal, water service and tax collection, from libraries and parks and recreation to behavioral health and child welfare services, and so much more–the breadth of services and end-user needs can feel overwhelming.

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30 Most Interesting Water Safety and Management Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

From how to efficiently distribute water to the public, making sure water is sanitized or managing the sewage or waste water, this broad term has many meanings. The Water Law Read about water and water laws from an environmental lawyer’s perspective. The phrase “water management” means a lot of things.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. and they collect special monies to pay for it. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts.

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CORONAVIRUS: Hoarding During the Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

The Attorney General also stated that he was working to protect the health and safety of his personnel while ensuring the law was enforced "at full throttle." To that end, he said, "we have started to see some evidence of potential hoarding and price gouging." It is a crime to engage in the prohibited activity.".