Some cities are ready to arrest homeless in encampments, but Los Angeles County supervisors disagree.
After a court ruling in Oregon by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows cities to arrest people in encampments, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, July 30, passed a motion barring the jailing of homeless from encampments. Instead, it is putting $120 million into a service to move the unhoused into shelters and is trying to convince cities to take the same approach. A person walks past an encampment in Skid Row in Los Angeles on July 26, 2024.
The city of Palm Springs earlier this month passed an anti-encampment law that gives police the power to arrest anyone who builds an encampment or is sleeping in a public space such as a sidewalk or park. San Francisco plans more aggressive encampment sweeps in August. Luna further clarified that the Sheriff’s Department generally doesn’t put in jail those suspected of committing a misdemeanor. The overcrowding of Men’s Central Jail and other county incarceration facilities leaves no room for offenders convicted of most misdemeanors, he explained.The board motion does not tell cities how to handle homeless encampments.
The county board, staff and Sheriff Luna instead emphasized their approaches to moving the unhoused out of encampments and into temporary housing, and eventually permanent housing.Cheri Todoroff, executive director of the county’s Homeless Initiative, said the county has created thousands of interim housing beds. She said they need cooperation from more cities and motel owners to establish more temporary housing.
Barger cited a Pathway Home project in Duarte, Monrovia and nearby unincorporated areas that cleared several encampments and brought 30 people into housing. In Palmdale, the program moved 60 people into housing who were living in encampments and RVs.
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