This is a reprint from a newsletter I like to read. I find it fitting this morning, also why I feel a personal urgency to become more hands on rather than turning a blind eye. Sometimes I wish that I could crawl back in my semi truck, turn on a great audio book and drive! Pretending none of this is happening in Siskiyou County or the Pacific Northwest for that matter. I laugh inside when I hear someone say, “I miss the good old days.” Yea Me TOO!
“In a surge of legal briefs [in recent weeks], frustrated leaders from across the political spectrum, including the liberal governor of California and right-wing state legislators in Arizona, charged that homeless encampments were turning their public spaces into pits of squalor, and asked the Supreme Court to revisit lower court decisions that they say have hobbled their ability to bring these camps under control…
“Five years ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in [a] case from Boise, Idaho, that it was unconstitutional for cities to clear homeless camps and criminally charge campers unless they could offer adequate housing. In the nine Western states covered by the circuit, that ruling has since prompted billions of dollars of public spending on homelessness… More than 50 governments and organizations asked the high court [last] month to overturn the Ninth Circuit’s recent decisions.”
New York Times
