16-0316R
Investigative Hearing - Street Harassment For the purpose of raising awareness about gender-based street harassment, assisting efforts to find ways to stop the intimidation that occurs through street harassment and to raise awareness that street harassment is tied intrinsically with institutional sexism and the culture of gender based violence, encouraging the reporting of street harassment by use of smartphones and other means to document, map and share incidents, including data about street harassment to empower public conversations, and showing the Council’s support for the development of innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.
- Committee
- Health Committee
- Introduced
- September 12, 2016
- Passed
- December 5, 2016