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Cities Can Now Arrest, Fine Homeless Sleeping in Public

Season 2024 Episode 43

A US Supreme Court decision has overturned legal protections for unhoused people, instead granting cities more power to arrest and fine people sleeping in public places. Additionally, it upheld an Oregon ordinance making it illegal for homeless residents to camp on city property, ruling it constitutional.

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