I know this is really late notice—stop looking at me like that—but if you’re downtown this evening, consider going over to City Hall to check out the Seattle Human Rights Commission discuss an aggressive solicitation bill before the city council. The commission may vote to support or oppose the legislation, introduced by city council member Tim Burgess. Discussion of the bill starts at 6:10 p.m. in room L2 at City Hall; enter on 5th Avenue. There's also a public comment period.

Commission chair Roslyn Solomon says the group will examine several issues arising from adding a $50 fine to aggressive solicitation (there’s already a criminal prohibition on aggressive panhandling). A ticket requires a lower burden of proof, Solomon says, and people who don’t pay the ticket or miss a court date would end up with a criminal conviction and then could be committed into treatment. “Ordering someone to treatment outside of a regular civil commitment process is problematic,” she says. “I’m not sure you can do it this way—that it will pass constitutional muster to order people into treatment against their will.”