Santa Cruz city leaders need to be honest about encampment sweeps

Santa Cruz city leaders claim to oppose criminalization of homelessness, but recent actions tell a different story, writes Santa Cruz ...

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“We're against encampment clearing overall, in general, full stop. And yet we needed, wanted and asked for the city to take some type of action ...

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Editorial | 'No tolerance' as sweeps of homeless camps in Santa ...

This month, the city of Santa Cruz issued a notice to vacate tent encampments in the Pogonip Open Space. Watsonville authorities in recent ...

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354 likes, 40 comments - lookoutsantacruz on September 5, 2024: "Santa Cruz city leaders claim to oppose criminalization of homelessness, but recent actions ...

City of Santa Cruz Clearing Out Camps in Pogonip Open Space

Santa Cruz Homelessness Response Manager Larry Imwalle said the sweep removed about five people, and about 30 encampments that had been ...

homeless Californians respond to Newsom's crackdown

Gavin Newsom's message on homelessness in recent weeks has been clear: The state will no longer tolerate encampments, and cities shouldn't ...

What Rights Do Unhoused People Have Amid Heightened Sweeps?

Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley told KQED Forum that arrests were “not effective” and that Santa Cruz had found ways to add shelter beds and ...

How Bay Area cities are responding to Newsom's calls for homeless ...

The Bay Area's smaller cities, meanwhile, have stayed largely quiet on their encampment plans. But this week, East Palo Alto Mayor Antonio ...

California city adopts aggressive response to homeless camps

Spurred by June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing governments to sweep out homeless encampments without having to first offer shelter, ...

Stop The Sweeps! Protest at Front of Mayor's Mansion in Santa Cruz ...

"We're protesting the fact that the Supreme Court ruled in Grants Pass v Johnson that cities can make laws to make it illegal to be a ...

Protecting Unhoused Patients from Harms of Encampment Sweeps

He acknowledges that city officials are under a lot of pressure from everyone — including nearby homeowners — to remove the encampments. His ...

Any word on last week's homeless sweep? : r/santacruz - Reddit

Sweeps break up large encampments, which are bad for fire danger, produce tons of raw sewage and become a haven for drug dealers and thieves.

“It's working”: Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley on latest homeless ...

KEELEY: The approaches we've been using in the city of Santa Cruz have real purchase to them. It's working. And so that then can give us at ...

Newsom orders California to ramp up homeless sweeps after ...

A month after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted officials new authority to police homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ...

Santa Cruz Retreats from Homeless Sweep as Protesters Push Back

... encampment in an organized homeless sweep ... Check out the official statement from the city of Santa Cruz on why this dangerous Camp needs to be ...