Government,
Civil Rights
Apr. 7, 2022
It’s time to stop arresting Black women for standing on the sidewalk
Bias against trans women also manifests in the enforcement of Penal Code section 653.22, resulting in the criminalization of “walking while trans.”
Since its inception as a state, California has used vagrancy and loitering laws to control, exploit and criminalize people of color.
In 1850, the first session of the California Legislature passed a law for the “protection of Indians” that included a provision that allowed for the arrest and forced labor for “any Indian able to work…who shall be found loitering and strolling about…”[1]
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