Attorney arrested during Oakland homeless encampment sweep

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OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- A civilian rights lawyer chained herself to a obstruction successful Oakland connected Wednesday to protestation a stateless encampment expanse connected Cal Trans property.

Several sweeps person unfolded astir the San Francisco Bay Area wrong the past 2 weeks targeting tents and RVs entrenched connected nationalist property, arsenic good arsenic state-owned property. Wednesday morning's cleanup effort was conducted adjacent 3441 Louise St. successful Oakland.

Andrea Henson, an lawyer and enforcement manager of Where Do We Go, was arrested for refusing to determination aft chaining herself to an entryway fence, according to a WDWG spokesperson. Where Do We Go is an advocacy radical for unhoused people's rights.

Henson claims that she was practicing civilian disobedience to protestation an "unlawful eviction."

(Image courtesy Where Do We Go)

"This morning's scheduled eviction of a assemblage surviving astatine the Cal Trans spot is unlawful as
they are lease holders and are entitled to owed process done California Tenants Rights law," WDWG wrote.

The radical sent KRON4 a transcript of a 2020 lease for the spot that allowed for 1 RV to beryllium parked. Henson told California Highway Patrol officers that radical surviving connected the spot were not served with due eviction notices.

"Cal Trans is not supra the law," Henson said.

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The advocacy radical claims that tenants paid $350 successful rent monthly. Landlords JD Services and Joseph Bernardini leased the onshore from Cal Trans, according to a suit filed by WDWG Wednesday.

CHP officers yet handcuffed Henson and enactment her successful a patrol car, photographs from the country show.

Civil rights lawyer Osha Neumann said, "Cal Trans was required to spell done the tribunal process to transportation retired an eviction and they didn’t bash that, alternatively they blatantly ignored the wide instrumentality that requires them to spell to tribunal if they privation to evict idiosyncratic who has been a ineligible tenant connected their property, whether the tenant has overstayed their invited oregon not."

On July 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an enforcement order directing authorities agencies to region stateless encampments. He besides urged cities to crackdown with section sweeps. Newsom’s bid is aimed astatine the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters crossed the authorities that enactment freeways, clutter buying halfway parking tons and capable metropolis parks.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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