Homeless in Northern California...Should it be a Crime ?

Homeless

RLF said:
A class action lawsuit was filed Aug 2nd on behalf of eleven Sacramento homeless, Sacramento Loaves and Fishes, and 3 other homeless organizations. Attorney Mark Merin is seeking to have his lawsuit certified as a class action on behalf of people living "without fixed nighttime shelter" -- as well as homeless people who have had personal property confiscated and destroyed. According to Merin's lawsuit, local ordinances prohibiting homeless people from sleeping outside violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because they punish people for being homeless.It also claims the practice of taking and destroying personal property, "including necessary survival gear, as well as irreplaceable prescription medication, paperwork, memorabilia, valuables and tools," violates their rights.

News - Lawsuit targets homeless policy - sacbee.com

This lawsuit in Sacramento is like gazing in a crystal ball for you, Redding City Council. Your future unless you make some compasionate changes in the way you deal with the poor and homeless here.These lawsuits have been won all over the country, and although there seems to be a good faith effort on your part to hold possesions found and confiscated by your homeless camp sweeps, without a written policy, its just lip service. Does the California Department of Fish and Game follow your unwritten policy ?, I think not.

300 more homeless children were found in your last homeless survey City of Redding, and it just keeps getting worse.Will more tickets, fines , and jail time solve the problem ? At Redding Loaves and Fishes,we are against laws that unfairly single out homeless people and criminalize them for everyday living and life-sustaining activites.If anyone claims to be Christian, you should be against them too.

If we Love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, and our neighbor, (poor, homeless,) as ourselfs, we do well. As Christians, we cannot sue the breathren, but it is hard to tell who the breathren are when the Redding City Council makes decisions about the poor and homeless as if there is no God in heaven at all.

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Every time i see a homeless person i give them a moment in my prayertime, i have worked around homeless people in the past and learned quite a bit. i agree that a percentage of people are homeless as a result of circumstance, their is also a pertentage of homeless out there that just don't want to deal with the responsibility of every day life, bills, taxes etc. i don't always want to give a homeless person money, cause i don't want to condone a additction if it is there. if they are hungry i will ask what do you need the money for, if they are hungry i will go get them something to eat if it is in my ability. but i try and use discernment. i feel for them, they are there for whatever reasoning, i believe that more buildings and provision should be made for them, with the opportunity to try and help them in their situation. i know what it is to be without the necessities of life, and it is very humbling. God bless them for their persistance for the times they stand out in the hot son. week after week i have seen a woman sitting on the sidewalk, in the rain, and in the hot sun, with a sign that says "Help". well some things i can't do. i am a single parent trying to take care of my own, kids, but my heart goes out to her, and i pray that God will send someone to her that would take her in and just allow her to have a shower , or feed her, or allow her to sleep on a bed . There are also those homeless who are outright survivors and know how to hustle and take care of themselves. My mom always made sure that when we were growing up she would say if there's anything you remember when you grow up , remember this one saying. "There for the sake of God go I".
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