January. The bill targets existing loopholes enabling law enforcement agencies to sweep violations under ...
5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
A Street Roots analysis of 2021 sweeps found city practices were potentially at odds with CDC guidelines ... after county officials helped the city craft expanded criteria to increase sweeps in the months ... following the delta variant surge. County officials emphasized the decision to expand sweep criteria was ...
15 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
anticipated to hold up to 500 people and absorb some people the city anticipates sweeping during an 18-month ...
8 Mar 2023 - Piper McDaniel
sidewalks, a set of regulations that proponents of sweeps have marshaled in their push to remove homeless ... Street Roots showed business owners successfully asking city officials for sweeps outside of established ... city processes intended to ensure encampment evaluations and sweeps are based on objective criteria. ...
8 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel
was told the area was not posted for a campsite sweep, but PPB would help clear the tents. By Friday ... officials and members of the Portland Police Bureau requesting the city sweep homeless camps. Emails ... prioritizing their requests for camp removals, the city’s preferred terminology for sweeps. His office declined ...
30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
encampment sweeps without offering help is actually really expensive. And so the irony is that some of the ... sweeps without offering help, which doesn't ultimately reduce the problem and actually may grow the ... homelessness. McDaniel: What's HUD's stance on sweeps? Cho: Sweeps is a very loaded term. You know, ...
26 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
improve and expand it. Vega Pederson is against implementing sweeps without providing support and ... it's a tent or their clothes — without doing that work, (sweeps) are not ethical,” Vega Pederson said. ... to what she calls “true sweeps,” or sweeps in which a person is told to vacate a space without being ...
5 Oct 2022 - Piper McDaniel
penalties makes absolutely no sense. That's not the correct approach.” In regards to sweeps, which ... stabilizing their lives, Bonamici was not explicitly opposed. She emphasized sweeps should only happen with ... are on the streets. (I don’t doubt) whether sweeps are traumatic for people — oftentimes, they ...
28 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel
favor of sweeps, noting their use “depends on the circumstances” and said homeless Oregonians must be ... trying to support our state and local partners.” Regarding sweeps, Blumenauer isn’t opposed but ...
28 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel
homelessness leads to treating homelessness as a law enforcement issue, which results in increases in sweeps ...
13 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel