The City of San Francisco agreed to a $2.8 million settlement after a two-year legal battle over its practice of clearing homeless encampments from public spaces. The case, initiated in September 2022 by several homeless individuals with support from the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness, argued that such sweeps were unconstitutional. Claims included violations of the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Prior court rulings in similar cases reinforced the argument that enforcing anti-camping laws was unconstitutional without offering adequate shelter. The Supreme Court later ruled that cities could enforce these laws, as homelessness did not signify a protected status.
The City of San Francisco reached a financial settlement of $2.8 million in a legal battle over the practice of clearing homeless encampments from public spaces.
Several homeless individuals, alongside the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness, argued in court that encampment sweeps violated constitutional rights, including illegal search and seizure.
The 2018 federal court ruling found that punishing the homeless for public camping was unconstitutional due to the lack of adequate shelter, impacting subsequent similar cases.
In June 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that cities could enforce anti-camping laws as they saw fit, determining homelessness was not a protected status.
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