photo by Karen Laslo
The City-sanctioned campground in north Chico that was opened to meet a court requirement.
The country’s highest court dropped a landmark decision on the question of civil rights for America’s unhoused people today.
In a decision that many attorneys and activists had predicted, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that cities enforcing anti-camping laws are not committing cruel and unusual punishment during evictions of unhoused people. It remanded the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson case back to the lower courts with a ruling that could affect policy in cities like Chico.