In Southern California, Some Cities Are Criminalizing Nuisance Code Violations

By Eric Westervelt

Published February 13, 2018 at 1:16 PM HST

Eric Westervelt

Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S.

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