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DESCRIPTION:The City Council will be meeting in closed session.  \n\nOn the agenda is 
 the infraction "Sinister Sidewalk Singsong Citation" case of Becky Johnson, 
 who is accused of singing political songs too loudly downtown on Jan 6th in 
 front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz.\n\nSee "Sing a Song, Go to Jail?" for 
 Becky's account at 
 http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/2010/01/sing-song-go-to-jail.html 
 .\n\nThe City Council will be deciding whether to instruct the City 
 Attorney to take the case further or drop it.\n\nCall City Hall at 420-5020 
 or e-mail them at citycouncil@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us \n\nUrge City Council to 
 drop this time-consuming, $-wasting, politically chilling case.\n\nAlso 
 involved are vague "noise" standards, expansive "police discretion", and 
 police-merchant collusion in forcing street performers that residents and 
 merchants don't like to shut down or face $445 fines.\n\nThe expansive 
 wording of the "Unreasonably disturbing Noises" law (MC 936.020) however 
 does not give anyone who doesn't like the music a veto, and police are 
 acting as though it does.  \n\nJohnson and three others were ticketed 
 during a homeless demonstration. See "City's Big Guns Show Up in Court: 
 Singing Ban Trials Rescheduled to April 6 and April 16"  at 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/27/18643083.php\n\nJohnson's 
 lawyer Ed Frey (pronounced "Fry") will be asking for a continuance earlier 
 in the day at 10 AM in Dept. 1 before the hostile judge Ariadne Symons.   
 If he doesn't get it, the trial is scheduled to begin at 10 AM Friday April 
 16th in Dept. 1\n\nIf you want to attend and speak at the closed session 
 supporting the City's not wasting money on this case, be there a little 
 before 1 PM in the room immediately adjacent to City Council chambers 
 towards Locust Street.  \n\nMembers of the public have the right to speak 
 on any item on the Closed Session agenda in the "open interval" before the 
 Council goes into closed session.  \n\nThe appearance of an infraction case 
 on the agenda and City Council discussion as to whether to prosecute it is 
 an extreme rarity and has never happened to me or Johnson before.\n\nThe 
 public's weighing in on this issue may be important.\n\nIf you can't come 
 to the session, please e-mail or call in asking that the case be dropped. 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/12/18644482.php
SUMMARY:Sinister Street Singer Citation Hits Closed Session of City Council
LOCATION:809 Center St. in the Courtyard Conference Room (the room behind City 
 Council Chambers at City Hall)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/12/18644482.php
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