Steve is thinking of the vote on the 14' forbidden zones, the new crime of "unattended property", and criminalizing hackeysacking, bubbleblowing, and ballplaying--all of which happened in the summer of 2002. It was at that time that Reilly and Porter rushed thru merchant-pleasing expansions of the Downtown Ordinances, though the main public complaint at their public hearings was "police harassment", which was unaddressed. The Council subsequently took care of that by eliminating the weak but struggling Citizens Police Review Board.

The Move Along law (and the finalized 10' forbidden zones for display devices) was passed in January 2003 unanimously by City Council. That Council included Kennedy, Rotkin, Mathews, Fitzmaurice, Primack, Reilly, and Porter. (The same bunch that sits there now.)

7 guilty as charged.