Posted on 02/08/2023 4:48:05 PM PST by Mariner
The city of Sacramento and the county are being sued by two disabled residents who say homeless camps that have taken over wide swaths of Sacramento sidewalks make it impossible for them to navigate the area and imperil their safety.
The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in federal court, seeks class-action status and a court order requiring city and county officials to clear Sacramento sidewalks of camps, tents and debris that have proliferated throughout the area in recent years. “In the past several years, the unsheltered population of Sacramento has increased substantially,” says the suit filed by Sacramento attorney Louis Demas. “Since the onset of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic and the corresponding economic downturn, the number of such persons camping on the streets of the Defendant City,and Defendant County, has exponentially exploded.”
The result, the lawsuit says, is sidewalks “blocked by tent encampments and attendant debris (often including toxic and used hypodermic needles), and unleashed animals rendering the sidewalks inaccessible, dangerous, and unsanitary for people with mobility disabilities.” The suit was filed on behalf of Susan Hood, a 64-year-old legally blind Arden Arcade resident, and Chester McNabb, a 66-year-old downtown Sacramento resident who has trouble walking and uses an electric scooter to get around.
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Lord knows the cops would shoot vigilantes.
Which protected class will win?
ADA Lawsuits have real Big teeth and this is one that will bite them real hard and force the city to do something
Karma. It’s what’s for dinner.
Oh this will be good. GO DISABLED!
Maybe it’ll be ‘bum sweep’ time
Ha. Used to be chicken korma.
“Oh this will be good. GO DISABLED!”
Hope this has legs or whatever.
Kinda pits one “protected group’ against another.
This is fun.
Each side will further divide into homeless camper persons of color, disabled persons of color and undocumented migrants of each type. Each with lawyers.
You beat me to it.
The civil war starting at this level makes a lot of sense.
No boots on ground but wheels up?
This time it will be the disabled. They vote!
Yes the disabled sued San Francisco because the BART elevators were filled with urine and junkies. They won and the elevators are now (semi) usable (I still avoid them though).
Yes that is correct. What a windfall either way for the lawyers.
A verdict will be reached, laws will be passed and nothing will really change except some of the streets will be cleared and some different streets will be vlogged by homeless camps.
I don’t get the “disabled” argument though. If the sidewalk is blocked, it’s blocked for everyone.
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