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Chief outlines Supreme Court camping ruling, summer operations, burglary prosecutions and Prop H placement
Summary
The police chief updated commissioners on the U.S. Supreme Court's Grant Pass v. Johnson decision (overruling Martin v. Boise), summer public-safety deployments (DUI checkpoints, enforcement of non-street-legal electric motorcycles), a multi-state burglary investigation with lengthy sentences, and council's decision to place Prop H on the November ballot.
The police chief provided a multi-part operations update to the commission, beginning with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grant Pass v. Johnson. He said Martin v. Boise's requirement that cities ensure sufficient shelter beds before criminally enforcing anti-camping ordinances was overruled in a 6-3 decision and that the city will present a menu of municipal-code options to City Council on August 27.
"The opinion, though, does not obviate legal risk to cities in criminally enforcing anti camping ordinances," the chief said, noting both the…
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