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Did you know now it is a CRIME to be someone who is homeless - and you can be JAILED for being homeless?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-decision-grants-pass_n_6632586ce4b05f96b016c567
Supreme Court Overturns Homeless Rights In New Decision

The Supreme Court overturned two decisions from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granting significant protections to homeless people from punishment for sleeping outdoors on Friday.

The decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson will make it easier for states and cities to ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors with as little as a blanket while punishing them with civil fines and criminal sanctions, including jail time. Homeless advocates believe the decision could lead to new anti-homeless laws that effectively force homeless people out of the states and cities in which they live without offering them alternatives.

The case came out of Grants Pass, Oregon, a small city with a population of about 40,000, where three homeless people — Gloria Johnson, John Logan and Debra Blake, who has since died — challenged city ordinances enacted in 2013 that were aimed at removing the homeless population from the city. The ordinances, billed as an anti-camping restriction, prohibited people from sleeping outdoors with even a blanket. The plaintiffs argued that the law was being enforced against a distinct category of individuals, homeless people, who have no other alternatives on where to sleep.

Did you know now it is a CRIME to be someone who is homeless - and you can be JAILED for being homeless?
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