Supreme Court deciding whether they consider it cruel and unusual punishment to jail or fine people for being homeless

[ericbarbour]

fwiw, Elk Grove had a notorious history of racism when it was a tiny little farm town. Now it's an exploding suburb. The population went from about 4000 people in the 1970s to 176,000 today. But it still has a lot of elderly white folk, many retired local farmers, who don't "those people" in their "little town". Pathetic.

The Wikipedia article doesn't mention it and you will have difficulty finding any weblinks that discuss it. Because the people who run the town today really do NOT want word to get around. But that attitude persists with some locals.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/loca ... -507053072
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news ... e-schools/
https://backstoryradio.org/blog/dont-le ... wn-on-you/

[Archer]

Supreme Court ruled they think it is not cruel and unusual punishment to criminalize homeless sleeping on public property

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-49 ... ncampments

I wonder how much this particular nugget of wisdom cost the taxpayer.

[journo]

Decisions in Grants Pass so far

1) Arrest the homeless for 1-30 days

2) whatever the fuck this is, but it seems to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCv8218YvTI

"Here is how we plan to address our almost 2% homeless population. You will only be legally allowed to stay on a tiny, renovated parking lot without natural shade and which routinely exceeds 100 degrees. After banning you from sleeping under trees, we are worried about taxing our citizens more than a few cents to prevent heat deaths there. So we will not prevent heat deaths there, that is up to charities, who we will also not fund. Also we are legally required by the state to set up this lot, all that we just said we feel we are required to do by state law. And also you can only stay for 1-7 days so walk across town every week to another lot we set up."

These actions also aren't enough for the 'anti-homelessperson' protesters who oppose even the lots set up for them and want them gone from the city.

[journo]

Obviously, 2 empty lots aren't enough to house 2% of the Grants Pass population so a lot moved to the surrounding Josphine county and others. It's not that these places treat them well, it's more well... they won't get arrested for merely existing there. And can presumably choose to sleep under trees rather than be packed like sardines in parking lot.

Would like to emphasize though that the lots the homeless in Grants Pass were given were only a result of the state legislature, if the Grants Pass city council had their way, they would really just be arresting all of them over and over lmao.