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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Just 5 days aft the City of Fresno passed an ordinance that aimed to cleanable retired stateless encampments, Fresno County has unanimously approved its ain stateless ordinance.
The Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 connected an ordinance that volition crackdown connected nationalist encampments. There was a assemblage of radical successful attendance erstwhile the ordinance was passed, with galore against it.
“Once we commencement criminalizing the enactment of being successful public, they person obscurity other to go. Where are they going to spell if they can’t beryllium successful public, prevarication successful public, oregon slumber successful public. There's obscurity else. They're each going to get shipped disconnected to prisons and past we’re going to beryllium the ones paying the terms tag for that," 1 talker said.
Another talker said that the fines would beryllium cruel and unusual.
“Everyone needs slumber and successful lieu of capable structure beds, which are successful abbreviated supply, what are the options? Thousands of unhoused folks having to campy successful Yosemite and akin places," the different talker said.
The county's caller ordinance prohibits camping connected nationalist spot that's not intended to beryllium a campsite.
This includes camping connected backstage spot without permission, and it bans camping wrong 500 feet of schools, parks, oregon libraries. The ordinance includes different caller restrictions successful Fresno County.
Some radical accidental the $500 good and months of jailhouse clip are unfair.
“And I cognize you’ve decided what you’re going to do. I cognize what, you’ve already decided what to do. It’s not going to help. You’re going to enactment radical successful jailhouse for nary crushed but sleeping," Mary Helen Lopez said during the nationalist comment.
County Supervisor Steve Brandau said the region has been just to its stateless population.
“We grant the stateless galore times with votes that we instrumentality present spending monolithic amounts of wealth to amended their lives," Brandau said.
However, Brandau said homelessness is not the absorption of the caller ordinance.
“It’s astir each the remainder of america that are impacted by radical who bash things that are not close successful a nationalist space. Nobody has the close to spell obstruct nationalist places and make situations that are problematic for our concern owners, our kids walking to school,” Supervisor Brandau said.
Fresno County's homelessness ordinance goes into effect Sept. 19 portion the City of Fresno's ordinance volition beryllium enforced starting Sept. 15.
For a implicit breakdown of the County's caller ordinance, click here.
