TUCSON, Ariz (KGUN). — The Tucson Police Department started enforcing a new median ordinance in April that bans anyone from standing on medians where the speed limit is over 30 mph.

Jamie Timmons was homeless for nearly 15 years.

“It’s a survival. It’s a survival out there,” she says.

Panhandling typically includes someone begging or asking for food, water, and/or money. TPD says on April 19, they issued 67 median ordinance-related citations.

Timmons currently resides at Gospel Rescue Mission . Before that, she spent several years of her life panhandling.

“Instead of committing crime I would panhandle for the money," she says "A lot of times people would give you the food. The money was a perk that other crimes wouldn’t have to be committed.”

Timmons recently completed the rec

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