imposing criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property upon homeless ... city center sits on the banks of the Rogue River. Baker, Tussing and Riverside Parks offer access to ... sitting outside her tent, leg resting on a bucket holding a tarp down on the grass. “It kind of all piled ...
3 Apr 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Boise ruling found the U.S. Constitution blocks cities from imposing criminal penalties for sitting ... , sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. “The fact ...
12 Jan 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
as the weather has cooled. They reported staff often sits outside in cold weather with no gloves or ... mocking them, saying they were lying about their disability. The complaint alleged staff ultimately exited ...
27 Dec 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
acts of sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to ... if a city chooses to regulate ‘survival activities’ like sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and ...
29 Sep 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
sit-lie-sleep guidelines forbidding public sleeping from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., among other restrictions. A memo ...
2 Aug 2023 - Piper McDaniel
sit around a table and talk' Blake was only wearing a shirt and pants the night of Jan. 21 as ... her death was a medical transport decision that left Melisa lying on the ground in freezing weather ... "Without legislation, we can simply sit around a table and talk," she said. 'I expect the Oregon ...
12 Jul 2023 - Tom Henderson
1 and requires “Any city or county law that regulates the acts of sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping ... affirm that if a city chooses to regulate ‘survival activities’ like sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping ... sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property” bans sleeping in all public ...
6 Jun 2023 - K. Rambo
have laws against lying down or sleeping in public places. Although ordinances regulating living and ... sense to him when people are “just sitting here minding their own business.” In July 2021, VanHook was ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melissa Lewis
sit-lie laws were discussed at the Legislature, Salem authorities removed the people camping along the ... without being rousted by the police. Many local governments have so-called sit-lie laws that prohibit ... there,” she said. Bennett’s assurance that Salem’s sit-lie law is not being enforced conflicts with what ...
31 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
Sit-lie ordinances are 'cruel and unusual punishment' when no alternatives exist Local ... sitting, or lying in all public spaces, when no alternative sleeping space is available, violate the Eighth ... people for sitting, lying or sleeping in public spaces is a criminalization of poverty and homelessness. ...
12 Apr 2019 - Ashley Archibald