City allows Rawls First Amendment protection but not residents
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City allows Rawls First Amendment protection but not residents

Historic City News has found occasion to criticize “legal advice” given by the city attorney, Isabelle Lopez, that is often blindly followed by members of the St Augustine City Commission without question or obtaining a second, independent opinion.  Although Lopez was quick to lead the city to a “constitutional attorney” to re-write our local panhandling ordinance, she dictates that the city police, city manager, and commissioners remain “hands off” because of her interpretation of constitutional law when it comes to violations at the hands of Ronald Rawls.