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Mineola bans ‘aggressivepanhandling’
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Vote by trustees makes village 1st in Nassau to pass law on solicitating BY R E B ECC A K L A R Mineola became the first village in Nassau County, and second on Long Island, to outlaw aggressive panhandling on Wednesday. The law passed 3-0, with Trustee Paul Pereira and Trustee George Durham absent. The law will go into affect immediately. “I will notify the police department that it’s on the books, and hopefully we don’t have to use it because that means I don’t have a problem,” Mayor Scott Strauss said in an interview following the meeting. The Village of Patchogue passed a similar law last October. Mineola’s decision comes nearly two month after a public hearing was held on the matter, when an attorney with the Empire Justice Center"said the law attacked the poor. At the same meeting, former Mineola Mayor and state Sen. Jack Martins, who now lives in Old
Westbury, said he supported the law. A couple of residents also spoke out in favor of the law. The village kept the hearing open 30 days for written public comment, but village officials said none was submitted, including from the Empire Justice Center. “I guess the law as written passed the muster of the Empire Justice Center,” Strauss said. “Once they read the law and realized we weren’t going after anybody’s social status, we were just going after acts off aggression.” Don Friedman, managing attorney of the Long Island office of Empire Justice Center, said in an interview Thursday morning that the center did not submit additional comments because they had nothing more to say than what was said at the public hearing. Friedman reiterated that the center feels this law “contributes to demonizing the poor.” Continued on Page 58
PHOTO COURTESY OF OLD WESTBURY GARDENS
Old Westbury Gardens hosted a Gymkhana to kick off their World War I exhibit focused on the contributions of Long Islanders such as John S. Phipps.
L.I. pols slam Trump’s conference with Putin BY LU K E TORRANCE President Donald Trump said Monday he had no reason to believe that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, a state-
ment that was met with swift condemnation by officials across the country. Politicians from Long Island were no exception. “The President has thrown America’s intelligence commu-
nity under the bus and sided with the Russians while on foreign soil,” said Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) in a statement. “I cannot understand why the President continues to have Continued on Page 59
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