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Vallejo Human Relations commissioners press for safer encampment sweeps and clearer storage rules for belongings
Summary
Commissioners and a resident urged changes to how Vallejo conducts encampment removals, including later sweep times, better outreach to people with lived experience, and clearer storage and retrieval procedures for seized belongings; staff said the city follows Administrative Rule 7.1 and retains items for a minimum of 90 days.
Members of the Vallejo Human Relations Commission spent much of their meeting pressing for changes to the city’s approach to encampment removals, focusing on protections for seniors and people with disabilities, better outreach to people with lived experience, and clearer rules for storing and returning belongings taken during sweeps.
A commissioner opening the meeting described ongoing removals and said staff asked volunteers to begin outreach at 5:30 a.m., which she refused because it would “disrupt them in their own habitat.” She said she and her church prepared 200 breakfast burritos to hand out at a later, more humane hour.
Resident Melvin Cowan, of Vallejo’s District 3,…
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