The Ticket Defence Program (TDP) has since 2003 offered free representation to street-involved people experiencing social profiling in the Ottawa region. Its service users are homeless or street-involved people who have received provincial and municipal offences for income-generation activities such as panhandling as well as other activities associated with life on the street. While forced to cease operations as a result of new regulations around the provision of legal services in Ontario, TDP re-emerged as the Programme de contestation des contraventions in 2014 as a bilingual, campus-community partnership offering free legal services and representation for provincial and municipal offences. Part one of this research provides an overview of the heterogeneous population that is street-involved in Ottawa through a lens of the criminalization of poverty. Part two describes TDP’s original structure between 2003 and 2007. Part three details some of the changes it underwent to meet Law Society of Upper Canada’s requirements around allowable legal practice and lays out some of the most common charges the PCC has seen over the last few years. The article concludes with a discussion of the on-going challenges this mobile community initiative faces in its efforts to provide meaningful access to justice.