Advocates say a lawsuit to stop the sweep of an Oakland encampment could provide blueprint.
Frank Ernst holds his cat, Chucky, in front of the parcel he built when he moved over two years ago at the small homeless encampment adjacent to the foot of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, July 12, 20224. Less than a month after the U.S.
“They’re trying to intimidate us to get out of here, but it’s like, where would we go?” said camp resident Michael Avery, who’s HIV-positive and living out of a maroon-colored minivan at the far end of the dirt road to the windswept beach. Those cases relied primarily on lower-court rulings that determined punishing people for sleeping on public property without providing “adequate shelter” violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But last month, to the cheers of some local officials under increasing pressure to deal with encampments, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority agreed to
Frank Ernst, a plaintiff in the case, said he has PTSD and an anxiety disorder from childhood trauma, making it impossible to stay in close quarters with strangers at a shelter. “It feels more like you’d be in prison,” he said. Frank Ernst shows a federal court document that grants a temporary stay through July 18 at the small homeless encampment adjacent to the foot of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, July 12, 20224. The City of Oakland was supposed to clear the encampment from July 9 to 11.
Well before the high court’s decision shifted the legal landscape concerning homelessness, a group of local kite surfers had been clamoring for Oakland to clear Toll Plaza Beach.on its website, the San Francisco Boardsailing Association wrote that one of the “best secret spots for kiting” has for years now been an “epicenter” for car break-ins while “increased trash and direct sewage runoff” continue to pollute the bay.
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