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Stockton council expands camping prohibitions and proclaims local homelessness emergency
Summary
The Stockton City Council unanimously adopted revisions to its camping and critical-infrastructure ordinance and proclaimed a local emergency on homelessness, approving staff'recommended enforcement, diversion and cleanup steps and requesting additional funding and staffing reallocations.
The Stockton City Council on Nov. 19 adopted revisions to Chapter 8.1 of the municipal code to expand locations where camping is prohibited and unanimously approved a resolution declaring a local emergency on homelessness.
City staff framed the changes as a response to recent changes in state and federal case law and a July 2024 executive order. Assistant City Attorney Taryn Jones told the council that the proposed redlines would add city-controlled public property to prohibited-camping locations, create a park-exclusion process with notice and appeal, and remove two footnotes tied to prior case law that required…
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