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Sarasota News Leader January 17, 2014 Page 83 POLICE COLLECTING DONATIONS FOR TEENS FOR JEANS CAMPAIGN For the second year in a row, the Sarasota Police Department is collecting jeans for the Teens for Jeans campaign, the department has announced. The campaign is being promoted by Aeropostale stores and DoSomething.org, a news release says. The Police Department lobby has a yellow bin available for donations of new or gently used jeans, the release adds. "More than 1.5 million teenagers and children are homeless in the United States," the release notes. "Teens for Jeans is a campaign that helps those children and teens needing it the most," the release continues. "When children run away or are taken to a shelter for immediate assistance, it's often without any personal belongings," said Capt. Corinne Stannish of the Police Department's Bureau of Support Services, who is heading up the campaign. "They're sent to school with borrowed items and feel like they stick out. Children that are able to have a pair of jeans to wear to school, it helps them fit in and it doesn't make them feel like attention is being immediately drawn to them by what they are wearing." The drop-off bin for the Teens for Jeans program is in the lobby of the Sarasota Police Department on Adams Lane in downtown Sarasota. Contributed photo Donations may be dropped off at any time until Friday, Feb. 14, at the Police Department headquarters, which is located at 2099 Adams Lane in Sarasota. For more information about the program, visit www.dosomething.org/ teensforjeans. CORRECTION The Jan. 10 article titled Atwell maligned incorrectly stated that the City of Sarasota admitted no guilt in the settlement of a lawsuit filed last fall by Citizens for Sunshine, a Sarasota organization, regarding a downtown meeting on homelessness attended by two city commissioners, Suzanne Atwell and Susan Chapman. The settlement stipulation states the following: meeting at the Tsunami restaurant and to take minutes was a violation of the Sunshine Law because it was known to the City that two or more City Commissioners would be present; and because the City accepted the invitation to the meeting intending 'to build a coalition to support our homeless efforts' and to build support for a subject that was rea"The City admits that the City's failure to pro- sonably foreseeable to come before the City vide notice of the October 13, 2013 9:00 a.m. Commission for future action."