The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition is suing the Hamilton County Sheriffs Department over a policy to remove the homeless from the courthouse steps. Commission executive director Josh Spring says Sheriff Jim Neils department will start threatening arrest this week. Spring wants to wait until after the winter shelters open in a month and a half. The Sheriff and Major Charmaine McGuffey were guests on Cincinnati Edition today where the sheriffs homeless strategy was one of the topics. McGuffey said the department has been patient. Were going to continue to ask for housing. Were going to continue to try and find solutions for homeless people, she said. I think at one point in time we do have to engage some type of immediacy. If people dont have an immediacy theres no reason for them to move on. Theres no reason for them to seek housing and a better situation when they think, or they know, that were going to continue to have soft enforcement and were going to allow them to stay where
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