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[Link] Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.
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[Link] Why Can’t You Buy Hot Meals With Food Stamps?
Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com
But they’re off-limits to people using food stamps. The reason is precisely that the food is warm and already prepared—a justification that’s often derided as cruel, anti-poor, and arbitrary.
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[Link] I live with 28 other men — and my wife. The power of connection changed everything for me
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
COVID has brought to light just how traumatic disconnection can be, especially for young people. Loneliness, after all, has been described as its own sort of epidemic.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Homeless Man Sentenced to 7 Weeks in Jail for Not Staying at Home
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
Singaporean national Rozman Abdul Rahman was arrested in March last year for breaking a rule requiring him to stay at home after he returned to Singapore from Batam, Indonesia.
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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.
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[Link] An Oregon City Is Limiting How Often a Church Feeds the Homeless
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An Oregon city just passed a new ordinance that would limit churches’ ability to serve free food to homeless people.
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[Link] Tennant Creek Aboriginal leaders say $80m aid package prompted by toddler's rape is being misdirected
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
John Fitz Jakamarra and the other members of Tennant Creek's Apurtu traditional owner group feel the Central Australian town is descending into chaos.
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[Link] A homeless man who died after being severely burned is being remembered as a gentle soul
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Aged in his 50s, Daniel Tommerup was cooking a steak outside Milton Hall on Frederick Street in Launceston's CBD when his clothes caught alight. He suffered burns to his lower body and was flown for treatment to the Royal Hobart Hospital, where he later died.
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[Link] DC Bulldozed a Homeless Person’s Tent While They Were Still Inside
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When the machine, described in reports as both a bulldozer and a front-end loader, made contact with the tent in Washington, D.C., Monday, a person “could be heard screaming,” local news site WTOP reported.
[Link] Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of Bitcoiners in June descended on Miami for Bitcoin 2021, a semi-religious event that celebrated all things related to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Telstra to make public pay phone calls around Australia free
Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians will be able to make free calls from public pay phones across the country under a new Telstra initiative.
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