Since Kentucky criminalized street camping, citations average more than one per day - mostly in Louisville and Lexington. Advocates say the law destabilizes the unhoused.

The Safer Kentucky Act is working exactly as intended. It has connected homeless people to services without burdening them with criminal records.

The first unlawful camping arrest took place Aug. 8 and the first citations were issued the first day the law took effect. Opponents of House Bill 5 said it criminalized homelessness.

The Safer Kentucky Act went into effect in July, with one of the provisions banning street camping.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, March 9 (Reuters) - The state of Kentucky passed a camping ban last year, frustrated by the growing ranks of homeless people and their encampments. Then came the human ...

A Kentucky law criminalizing homeless camping is scheduled to take effect July 15 as part of the wide-ranging Safer Kentucky Act.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon city’s ban on “public camping” by homeless people on Friday, it undermined a planned legal challenge to a similar ban in Kentucky that will take ...