{"id":10245,"date":"2023-11-01T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:21:11","slug":"assembly-republicans-call-on-legislature-to-file-amicus-brief-in-homeless-encampment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10245","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Republicans Call on Legislature to File Amicus Brief in Homeless Encampment Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe unchecked crime, addiction and mental illness on our streets need to stop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

SACRAMENTO \u2013 Today, Assembly Republicans called on\u00a0Speaker Robert Rivas<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Hollister) and\u00a0Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins<\/strong>\u00a0(D-San Diego) to\u00a0direct the Office of Legislative Counsel to file an amicus brief on behalf of the California State Legislature urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an effort to overturn the decision in\u00a0Martin v. Boise<\/em><\/a>, which restricts local governments from clearing homeless encampments<\/a> unless adequate shelter space is available. The current case,\u00a0City of Grants Pass v. Johnson<\/em><\/a>, asks the Supreme Court to determine that the enforcement of laws prohibiting camping on public property should not be considered cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n

Allowing the enforcement of vagrancy laws will eliminate a barrier that too many have relied on to justify and excuse their failures to address the homelessness crisis. Overturning Boise<\/em>\u00a0will allow officials to focus on other drivers of homelessness, including a failed \u201chousing first\u201d policy, soaring housing costs, inadequate mental health treatment and a failure to enforce common-sense drug and public nuisance laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia needs to be all-in on ending the human devastation we\u2019re seeing throughout our state<\/em>,\u201d said\u00a0Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher<\/strong>\u00a0(Yuba City). \u201cThe unchecked crime, addiction and mental illness on our streets need to stop. It\u2019s time to clear these encampments and eliminate open air drug markets – overturning Boise will be a critical step in that effort<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assembly Republicans are urging Speaker Rivas and Pro Tem Atkins to act quickly, as the deadline for submission of amicus briefs for this case is approaching.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, at the direction of Democratic leadership, the\u00a0Legislature filed a lawsuit seeking to disenfranchise millions of California voters<\/a>\u00a0by having an initiative to limit tax increases thrown off the November 2024 ballot. The effort to resolve the homelessness crisis should merit a similar level of attention and resources.<\/p>\n

The letter to Speaker Rivas and Pro Tem Atkins is\u00a0available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe unchecked crime, addiction and mental illness on our streets need to stop.\u201d SACRAMENTO \u2013 Today, Assembly Republicans called on\u00a0Speaker Robert Rivas\u00a0(D-Hollister) and\u00a0Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins\u00a0(D-San Diego) to\u00a0direct the Office of Legislative Counsel to file an amicus brief on behalf of the California State Legislature urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"\nAssembly Republicans Call on Legislature to File Amicus Brief in Homeless Encampment Case - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10245\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assembly Republicans Call on Legislature to File Amicus Brief in Homeless Encampment Case - 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