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Denver wants to crackdown on “junkers” but ACLU says new law could target homeless

Opponents say new rules give city too much discretion to take vehicles that people be living in or can’t afford to fix

DENVER, COLORADO - MAY 4: Sheila Pendleton, 52, lives in her Hyundai Santa fe with her dog on May 4, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. Pendleton is currently staying in a church parking lot in eastern Denver that is one of the city’s sanctioned safe parking site. The ACLU and homelessness advocates are asking Denver’s city council to change a vehicles ordinance that has recently come up for a vote. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
DENVER, COLORADO – MAY 4: Sheila Pendleton, 52, lives in her Hyundai Santa fe with her dog on May 4, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. Pendleton is currently staying in a church parking lot in eastern Denver that is one of the city’s sanctioned safe parking site. The ACLU and homelessness advocates are asking Denver’s city council to change a vehicles ordinance that has recently come up for a vote. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Joe Rubino - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | jrubino@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Civil rights advocates are concerned a City Council ordinance that would beef up city parking rules and make it easier to ticket and impound "junkers" and other vehicles clogging up public rights of way will be used to target low-income and unhoused people.
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