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2022
Recommendation 3:
Implement directives related to the confiscation of belongings from people who rely on public space, which recognize that this practice has continued potential for harmful and discriminatory impacts.
- In the rare event that belongings must be confiscated, directives should clearly detail how City staff are to protect the rights and dignity of those who are impacted, including rights to procedural fairness.
- City staff must provide at least 24 hours of advance notice prior to seizure.
- If someone’s belongings are justifiably confiscated, City staff must provide a receipt that details what was taken, and clear instructions on how to retrieve personal belongings.
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Recommendation 11:
Courts should offer services, including early resolution and information services, for people who are navigating the legal system alone.
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Recommendation 1:
Ground all Repatriation policies, discussions, and decisions in a fundamental place of respect and empathy.
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Recommendation 5:
Focus on addressing service gaps for basic, essential legal services including family law, wills, employment, housing and consumer issues.
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Recommendation 8:
Emphasize the responsibility of lawyers and paralegals to fill access to justice gaps.
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Recommendation 7:
Make legal aid available to more people and for a wider range of legal problems.
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Recommendation 25:
Introduce legal capability into elementary and secondary schools to prepare people for legal issues in their lives; Offer training about access to justice issues in post-secondary programs to integrate legal, health, social and education services.
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Recommendation 19:
Bring all of the organizations involved in access to justice in each province or territory together to focus on local solutions.
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Recommendation 9:
Courts must be adequately staffed and located where people live to make sure people can get access to a judge when needed, especially when fundamental and constitutional rights are at stake.
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Recommendation 10:
Ending Street Sweeps will require cross-department collaboration between the City of Vancouver, Park Board, and Vancouver Police Department. Each of these institutions must commit to the elimination of Street Sweeps. By eliminating costly and traumatic Street Sweeps, the City could fund peer-led programming, including community clean-ups, street and sidewalk maintenance, vending support, and the management of storage facilities.
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