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From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2024-03-15, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> Tenderloin residents and businesses will file lawsuits Thursday, alleging
> San Francisco has treated the destitute neighborhood as a "containment
> zone" for illegal drug dealing and use.
>
> A federal lawsuit asserts that the city has failed to address long-
> standing issues with street safety and crime.
>
> The plaintiffs include four unnamed residents who are described as
> families with young children, seniors, disabled residents and two
> businesses, including the Phoenix Hotel and Best Western. The suit further
> accuses the city of violating constitutional rights, disability access
> laws, public nuisance laws and other statutes.
>
> "For years, the de facto policy of the city has been to corral and confine
> illegal drug dealing and usage, and the associated injurious behaviors, to
> the Tenderloin," the complaint states. "The city tries to keep such crimes
> and nuisances out of other San Francisco neighborhoods by 'containing'
> them in the Tenderloin."
>
> The lawsuit includes photos depicting sidewalks blocked by tents, crowds
> of people appearing to buy and use drugs, discarded needles, human waste
> and other hazards. It also cites online reviews from hotel guests
> disturbed by the neighborhood conditions surrounding the lodging
> properties.
>
> In a statement Thursday, spokesperson Jen Kwart said the City Attorney's
> Office would review the complaint and respond in court.
>
> While we understand and share the frustration of Tenderloin businesses
> and residents, the city is making progress in reducing crime, disrupting
> open-air drug markets, and addressing homelessness, all while complying
> with the preliminary injunction issued in the Coalition on Homelessness
> case," Kwart said.
>
> Kwart also called the latest lawsuit's timing "odd," given the U.S.
> Supreme Court's impending decision in the Grants Pass case "potentially
> altering the legal landscape in homelessness cases."
>
> "It is clear that increased litigation over homelessness is not improving
> conditions on our streets," Kwart said. "The courts are not equipped to
> police every interaction between outreach workers and unhoused
> individuals. The courts are similarly not equipped to step into the shoes
> of elected policymakers and voters in order to craft broad strategies to
> address homelessness.
>
> UC Law SF will also file a court motion Thursday in an ongoing U.S.
> District Court lawsuit seeking compliance with a 2020 court order
> requiring the city to remove all Tenderloin homeless encampments and
> tents.
>
> The city has claimed it is prevented from enforcing that order by a
> separate 2022 injunction from Judge Donna Ryu, barring enforcement of
> certain anti-camping laws when there are more homeless people than
> available shelter beds.
>
> However, the plaintiffs argue that the injunction only applies to those
> who are involuntarily homeless, not those who have refused offers of the
> city's approximately 300 open shelter spaces. They also note an appeals
> court has since limited the 2022 injunction's scope.
>
> The enforcement order asks the court to require the city to resume full
> compliance with the 2020 injunction by discouraging tents, preventing re-
> encampment and "employing enforcement measures" against those who refuse
> shelter.
>
> UC Law SF's attorney, Matthew Davis, said his clients were not seeking
> monetary damages.
>
> Rather, they demand equitable treatment and relief from open-air drug
> markets, violence, and impassable and unsanitary streets, Davis said.
> They demand an end to the rampant illegal street vending, and from the
> squalor and misery that exists throughout their neighborhood because the
> city has decided that people in the throes of addiction can live and die
> on the Tenderloins streets.
>
> Dean David Faigman said the school was committed to helping make
> neighborhood streets safer by enforcing the stipulated injunction.
>
> "The Tenderloin deserves to be treated just like any other neighborhood in
> the city. As an institutional anchor in the Tenderloin, we have the
> responsibility to speak for and protect our campus and our neighbors whose
> voices are often diminished," Faigman said.
>
> Correction: This story was updated with the proper spelling of UC Law SF
> Dean David Faigman's name.
>
> https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/14/tenderloin-lawsuit-san-francisco-drug-
> containment-zone/?itm_source=parsely-api
>
And another democrat run woke city crashes and burns.
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pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024.
Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.
Impeach Joe Biden 2022.
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