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In 2018 Debra Blake, a homeless woman, was banned from every park in Grants Pass, Oregon and fined over $5,000. She sued the city for violating her constitutional rights and her case, which initially led to an injunction against sweeps without an available shelter bed, was overturned by the Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass v
Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.. The Oregon Law Center, which supports low-income Oregonians, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Debra Blake (1959–2021) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in October 2018. [4]
Last month, D’Amico and others formed the Rochester Grants Pass Resistance. They issued a list of demands that included an embargo on encampment sweeps and a commitment to building a shelter ...
California has cleared more than 12,000 encampments since 2021, while cities like Fresno, California and Grants Pass, Oregon have passed complete bans on camping in public spaces.
There is a tent city in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where a woman was protecting a friend near a tent city, where a homeless man became enraged after suspecting that the two got close to his tent, making him nervous. He then stabbed the woman, 40, who was not a resident of the tent city or believed to be homeless, to death. [59]
The agreement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule on a similar case out of Grants Pass, ... Cincinnati settles 2018 civil rights tent city lawsuit. Show comments. Advertisement.
Anti-camping legislation in municipalities has increased because of the 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which states that the criminalization of homeless people sleeping in public areas or setting up encampments does not constitute as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. [22]
Kearns said police or city workers took, and often destroyed, her property—her birth certificate, the Visa card she used to access her disability income, medications, and the tent where she ...