The woman of the adverse fairfax slows down the clearing of her own camp with a lawsuit; Fremont is passing a strict new ordinance – SFIST

Two cities of the bay are located in different directions in the combat camps, as a fertilfax woman has just gained delay in clearing her own camp until Fremont simply adopted a law that activists are afraid of being illegal to hand over money or food to the homeless.

Many cities in California are still struggling to interpret the new powers given to them since the Supreme Court’s summer Johnson v. Grants Pass A solution that allows cities to ban public camping, even if the city cannot provide an alternative shelter. Above in the Fairfax of Marin County, an uncomproured woman has just won the right to continue her own camp while the courts arranged a case she brought. While in the city city Fremont, a new law passed by the City Council, which makes a crime for the “help or encouragement” of homelessness that some are afraid to make a crime to provide the residents of the camps, food or even a bottle of water.

The Marin County Camp in Fairfax is in Peri Park, he is seen in this article by Marin Independent Journal as furniture and mini-kitchen and there are five or six people according to reports. Fairfax has a law that says people cannot be in city parks at night without “enough police protection or adult supervision.” The residents of the camp applied for permission to be there at night, arguing that they were “adult supervision” as they were all adults.

The permit was refused so that the resident of the Camp Shelli Konz is suing the city in the federal court as a form of appeal of this decision. And The Bay Area News Group announces that the court has provided an order to clear the camp until this case is resolved.

“Meanwhile, in accordance with the court’s instructions, without the execution of the regulation for the fight against camping against the camp near [Contratti Park] Ballfield will be held before the March 18 hearing, “said Fairfax City in a message. “The city remains committed to dealing with this issue with attention, balancing legal obligations, community needs and well -being of all residents of Fairfax.”

As noted, this hearing is scheduled on March 18 and court proceedings will continue to know, as long thereafter. But for now, this camp remains intact.

Meanwhile, in Fremont, Cal Matters announced last week that the City Council was voting for an ordinance that would make a crime to participate in “causing, resolving, supporting, maintaining or concealing a camp. Violators can receive a fine of $ 1,000 and six months in prison, which is believed to be the first such ordinance in the country. And some support groups are worried that it will criminalize people with food, money or water.

Well, KTVU reports that the measure has passed 6-1 on Tuesday night. And it is attracted national attention that this can criminalize the work of charity organizations or propaganda groups.

“You can give food, you can give water, tent, you can help people. The only thing you can’t do is that you can’t build trees for rivers,” explained Fremont Raj Salvan Mayor in front of KTVU S “Large structures cannot be built that may pose a fire hazard. They are not safe for the community, and are also not safe for our persons who are not away.”

This was said that members of the councils were not so sure and said they could review the language of the ordinance if they were uncomfortable with its implementation.

Although, like sister Elaine Sanchez of Fremonth sisters from the Holy Family, Cal Matters said, “I think if I will be arrested for something, it will be to do something I think it helps people in need.”

Related: The Supreme Court’s decision may have broad consequences for cleaning homeless in California [SFist]

Image: homeless tents in the park. – Stock Photo (Getty Images)