The judge blocks the Oregon City at the center of Scotus homeless that governs from the application of the ban on camps
A ORGON JUDGE He issued a preliminary injunction by blocking a rural city at the center of a sentence of the United States Supreme Court on the camps of the homeless from enforcing the camping restrictions unless certain conditions are satisfied.
Sarah McGlaughlin, judge of the Court of the County Circuit of Josephine, established on Friday that the Pass of the city of the Grants must increase the ability in offices that the city has approved for camping and ensure that the sites are physically accessible to people with disabilities.
If the city is unable to satisfy these conditions, the order of the judge prohibits the city of mentioning, arresting or fining people for the campsite on public property. It also prevents the city from forcing people to leave campsites, to remove campsites that are not clearly abandoned or to prohibit camping in most city parks.
The city can still respect the rules that prohibit sleep on sidewalks and roads or in the alleys and in the doors.
With Fruitdale Elementary School in the background, a homeless regulates the shoes in Fruitdale Park, on March 23, 2024, in Grant Pass, Oregon. (AP)
Mayor Clint Scherf told the Associated Press that he was “discouraged” by the judge’s order. The information coordinator of the city, Mike Zacchino, told the point of sale that the city was “examining all the aspects to make sure to make the best decision for our community”.
The cause that turned on the case, intended by the rights of disability Oregon, argued that the city was discriminating against people with disabilities and violating a state law that required that the cities camping regulations were “objectively reasonable”. Five homeless Pass were among the complaints.
Grants Pass has fought for years to manage the crisis of the homeless and has become symbolic of the national debate on how to answer the matter. Many parks in the city, in particular, have seen camps affected by the use of drugs and waste.
Fremont, California-A other city that tries to deal with the crisis of the homeless-it approved one of the most rigorous anti-and-nation camp orders of the nation last month, prohibiting camping on any public property and undergoing anyone “causing, permitting, helping, favoring or accumulating” camps of “related to a fine of $ 1,000 in prison.
Last summer, the Supreme Court of the United States Russi in one case presented by the city that communities can prohibit sleep outside and the beautiful people who violate the ban, even when there are not enough beds for the shelters.
A volunteer clings to a wheelchair while helping Max Hartfelt in his curtain after transferring him from one park to another Saturday 23 March 2024 to Gras Pass, Oregon. (AP)
The sentence of the Supreme Court canceled a Decision of the Court of Appeal That the prohibitions of the campsite forced when the refuge space is insufficient equivalent to a cruel and unusual punishment pursuant to the eighth amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Following the ruling of the High Court, the subsidies prohibited the campsite on all the properties of the city except the sites designated by the city council, which established two locations for the hundreds of homeless in an attempt to remove them from the parks.
After entering office this year, the new mayor and the new members of the Council moved to close the largest of the two sites, which hosted around 120 curtains, said the cause. Even the operating hours of the smallest site were reduced between 17:00 and 7:00
Both sites were often crowded, with bad condition and inaccessible to people with disabilities due to the loose gravel, according to the complaint.
“It is inconceivable for me to allow people to live there that way,” said the member of the City Council Indra Nicholas before the vote to close the largest site.
The city of California exceeds the ban on the camp of homelessness to all public property
The vehicles driving long Rogue River Highway while the light shines on the area on March 23, 2024 in Grants Pass, Oregon. (AP)
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After using the cause, the city reopened a second smaller site and extended the time that people could remain in the position at four days.
McGlaughin’s order says the city must increase the ability of what was before the largest site was closed.
Tom Stenson, legal deputy director for the rights of the Oregon disability, praised the sentence.
“This is not a radical solution. The court is basically saying: ‘returns to the quantity of space and places for people who are homeless you only had three months ago,” he told the Associated Press.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
