SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

[Disir]

A San Francisco judge dismissed criminal charges Thursday against three homeless people who were arrested for camping or sleeping on the streets, a decision that follows a federal appeals court ruling barring cities from prosecuting such cases when no shelters are available.

District Attorney George Gascón, who has announced a new policy of charging people with illegal camping only when they reject an offer of an available shelter, did not challenge the dismissals. But Gascón and Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office appear to be at odds on what a city has to do to make shelters “available.”

In a Sept. 4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated lawsuits by homeless people challenging ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that made it a crime to sleep on a sidewalk or to use any sidewalk or public property as a “camping place.” The court said the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”
SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

Good! Make some changes.

 

[Wyatt earp]

How come they can't arrest them for loitering?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There is always the Los Angeles solution, typhus. Or something just as dandy.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Des Moines had a bunch of one and two man shelters built by a Christian ministry on some public land several years ago until the Democratic legislators down there decided that they should be torn down.

Most of the more conservative people I know said that they should have been left alone at that time.

Most of these homeless people don't want a "homeless shelter" where they have to follow rules.

They just want to be left alone.

*****SMILE*****

 

[Dan Stubbs]

A San Francisco judge dismissed criminal charges Thursday against three homeless people who were arrested for camping or sleeping on the streets, a decision that follows a federal appeals court ruling barring cities from prosecuting such cases when no shelters are available.

District Attorney George Gascón, who has announced a new policy of charging people with illegal camping only when they reject an offer of an available shelter, did not challenge the dismissals. But Gascón and Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office appear to be at odds on what a city has to do to make shelters “available.”

In a Sept. 4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated lawsuits by homeless people challenging ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that made it a crime to sleep on a sidewalk or to use any sidewalk or public property as a “camping place.” The court said the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”
SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

Good! Make some changes.

Good idea Judge.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

A San Francisco judge dismissed criminal charges Thursday against three homeless people who were arrested for camping or sleeping on the streets, a decision that follows a federal appeals court ruling barring cities from prosecuting such cases when no shelters are available.

District Attorney George Gascón, who has announced a new policy of charging people with illegal camping only when they reject an offer of an available shelter, did not challenge the dismissals. But Gascón and Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office appear to be at odds on what a city has to do to make shelters “available.”

In a Sept. 4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated lawsuits by homeless people challenging ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that made it a crime to sleep on a sidewalk or to use any sidewalk or public property as a “camping place.” The court said the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”
SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

Good! Make some changes.

Move the Sons of Bitches to the Court House Lawn. This might solve the problem.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

We now see what progressive leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the country is like.

Arrested for attempting to live the best they can and their crime loitering and camping out on public property.

What happened to the rights of individuals progressives?

*****SMILE*****

 

[Sun Devil 92]

People I know who live there say it's a real hole.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

We now see what progressive leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the country is like.

Arrested for attempting to live the best they can and their crime loitering and camping out on public property.

What happened to the rights of individuals progressives?

*****SMILE*****

 

[Dan Stubbs]

A San Francisco judge dismissed criminal charges Thursday against three homeless people who were arrested for camping or sleeping on the streets, a decision that follows a federal appeals court ruling barring cities from prosecuting such cases when no shelters are available.

District Attorney George Gascón, who has announced a new policy of charging people with illegal camping only when they reject an offer of an available shelter, did not challenge the dismissals. But Gascón and Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office appear to be at odds on what a city has to do to make shelters “available.”

In a Sept. 4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated lawsuits by homeless people challenging ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that made it a crime to sleep on a sidewalk or to use any sidewalk or public property as a “camping place.” The court said the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”
SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

Good! Make some changes.

Just the health hazards are enough to stop this camping out.

 

[Disir]

We now see what progressive leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the country is like.

Arrested for attempting to live the best they can and their crime loitering and camping out on public property.

What happened to the rights of individuals progressives?

*****SMILE*****

As soon as you lose everything they don't want you.

 

[danielpalos]

A San Francisco judge dismissed criminal charges Thursday against three homeless people who were arrested for camping or sleeping on the streets, a decision that follows a federal appeals court ruling barring cities from prosecuting such cases when no shelters are available.

District Attorney George Gascón, who has announced a new policy of charging people with illegal camping only when they reject an offer of an available shelter, did not challenge the dismissals. But Gascón and Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office appear to be at odds on what a city has to do to make shelters “available.”

In a Sept. 4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated lawsuits by homeless people challenging ordinances in Boise, Idaho, that made it a crime to sleep on a sidewalk or to use any sidewalk or public property as a “camping place.” The court said the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.”
SF judge throws out charges against homeless people camping on sidewalk

Good! Make some changes.

Equal protection of the law for the Poor; unemployment compensation for being naturally unemployed in our at-will employment States!

 

[Dan Stubbs]

We now see what progressive leadership in one of the most progressive cities in the country is like.

Arrested for attempting to live the best they can and their crime loitering and camping out on public property.

What happened to the rights of individuals progressives?

*****SMILE*****

As soon as you lose everything they don't want you.