Laguna Beach agreed to settle a lawsuit over its treatment of disabled homeless people by constraining police from interfering with those asleep in public places. Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, as long as there are no reasonable public health or safety concerns.
The agreement also establishes a process for expunging from the public record citations and convictions obtained under the city's previous anti-camping ordinance, key portions of which were repealed in February following the filing of the lawsuit last December.
The ACLU, Newport Beach law firm Irell & Manella and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine law school filed the suit on behalf of four homeless plaintiffs.
Wonderful. May we have Dean Chemerinsky's address so that we know where to send the piles of excrement and toilet paper and condoms and Ice beer can that the homeless leave in the park next to my homeas they sleep there each night? I'd rather not have my child play in them when they play soccer there the next day. BTW, do you have any young, aspiring law clerks who would like to come pick this shit up every day as we neighbors are getting tired of this task?
Posted by: Uptown Gal | July 05, 2009 at 09:59 AM