The class-action suit also suggested some property may have been stolen by clean-up crews.
Homelessness is on the rise across San Diego County, with the official count estimating about 8,500 people without housing. That represents a 10% increase since 2020, though officials acknowledge the numbers are likely far worse. The officers told her to move or face arrest. Gillette, who’s now 51, had been sleeping outside near the Santee Drive-In and responded that she couldn’t leave without her walker.
“Defendants’ actions are making the homelessness crisis worse,” according to the lawsuit filed Monday in San Diego federal court. Their “constant and relentless threats of criminal punishment upon Citizens for being poor and unhoused are a cruel and ineffective approach that betrays a deep, willful misunderstanding of the problem.
Shelter is also scarce. El Cajon’s East County Transitional Living Center is essentially the only all-purpose facility for multiple cities and efforts to create more beds in Lakeside, Santee and Spring Valley failed after neighbors complained.Caltrans staffers once allegedly arrived for an encampment sweep several days earlier than announced, the lawsuit said.
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