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According to court documents, the State of Indiana was one of 20 states to join Grant's Pass in requesting the Supreme Court take the case. Supreme Court: Cities can arrest homeless for sleeping ...
The Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a California appeals court ruling that found such laws ...
The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.
As a growing number of tents clustered its parks, the city banned camping and set $295 fines for people sleeping there. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely blocked the camping ban under its finding that it is unconstitutional to punish people for sleeping outside when there is not adequate shelter space.
Homeless Bills of Rights seek to amend local codes that outlaw loitering, vagrancy, sitting or lying on the sidewalk, begging, urinating, eating in public, and other behaviors that disproportionately affect homeless people. [1] Most homeless advocates agree that the issue of homelessness can only be alleviated if there is a focus placed on ...
A federal appeals court ruled against the city, holding that Grants Pass could not “enforce its anticamping ordinances against homeless persons for the mere act of sleeping outside with ...
In August 2013, 20 homeless women and children slept outside a homeless intake building on Juniper Street to protest the lack of available shelter beds at the start of the school year. They voluntarily decamped when the city's Shared Prosperity agency bought them pizza and placed each of them in a shelter. [165]
City of Boise that the Eighth Amendment prohibited local governments from criminalizing “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”