Eastvale, CA Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

19 opens with council findings that aggressive panhandling threatens public safety and disrupts residents and businesses throughout Eastvale, singling out banks, ATMs, bus stops, gas stations, parking lots, and street medians as high-risk 'captive audience' locations. 040 defines 'aggressive manner' to include five specific acts: conduct likely to make a reasonable person fear bodily harm or property damage, touching another person or their vehicle without consent, intentionally blocking or interfering with someone's safe passage on foot, bike, or in a car, using violent or threatening gestures toward a person or vehicle, and persisting in following or approaching someone after being told the solicitation is unwanted.

060 covering financial institutions, ATMs, transit stops, gas pumps, shopping-center driveways, and outdoor dining areas. The council adopted the chapter, Ordinance 2018-04, on May 9, 2018, relying on the city's police power under Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution and citing Los Angeles Alliance for Survival v. City of Los Angeles as authority for regulating solicitation without violating the state's liberty of speech clause. 030 confirms the chapter reaches every public place in Eastvale but does not override conduct otherwise authorized by other law. 070 exempts protected free speech, on-premises business solicitation authorized by the property owner, towing-related requests, and emergency vehicle-repair requests.