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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]
Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the City Council of Grants Pass, Oregon, voted unanimously to adopt a new camping resolution to help address homelessness.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — For more than ... apartments that you could find for less than $1,200 a month in Grants Pass,” Ed Johnson, an Oregon Law Center attorney representing the city’s homeless ...
The Grants Pass case arose from a lawsuit filed by two homeless individuals against Grants Pass, Oregon, over its enforcement of a local public camping ban. The plaintiffs argued that since the ...
A homeless encampment sweep is the forced removal of homeless people and their property from a public area. It is a frequently-used strategy to mitigate issues related to homelessness. [ 1 ] Often called "encampment resolutions" or "clean-ups" by local governments, they are alternatively labeled "sweeps" by advocacy groups . [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Homelessness and law" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... City of Grants Pass v. Johnson; H. Helping Homeless ...
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 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