Can the city stop employers from soliciting laborers from public streets or laborers from going in the street to solicit employment?
A. City ordinance currently prohibits a person who stands, sits or otherwise occupies a position in a public street from soliciting employment or business from an occupant of a vehicle. Practically speaking, however, this ordinance is difficult to enforce because officers would have to hear the conversation between the parties in order to prove that business or employment was solicited. With regard to prohibiting employers from soliciting laborers from public streets, those employers could be ticketed for public safety concerns (e.g. impeding traffic). Such enforcement would have to be uniformly and equally applied, however, thereby impacting all residents, such as parents parked on a public street waiting for the dismissal of their children from school. Lewisville police have conducted three undercover operations in the past six months, most recently on Feb. 28. Six people have been given citations, and 10 others have been arrested on charges of solicitation by a pedestrian, a Class C
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