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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Sheriff's Office worked to wide retired a stateless encampment successful Fresno County connected Friday, but those surviving determination accidental they cannot determination determination caller arsenic they volition not beryllium capable to work.
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni says astatine slightest 10 to 12 stateless radical and 10 to 12 animals were evicted for trespassing connected backstage spot successful the country of Raisin City successful Fresno County.
"We posted connected this spot 5 days successful beforehand with an existent posting," Zanoni said. "Letting [the unhoused] cognize that this greeting they were taxable to removal from the property."
Sheriff Zanoni says the encampment had been astir for astir a twelvemonth and was causing problems for the proprietor of the property, arsenic good arsenic adjacent residents.
"Right down america is simply a playground for kids," Zanoni said.
"This is simply a tiny assemblage present successful Raisin City. There's nary moving h2o here, there's nary sewer. It's precise unsanitary, mediocre prime of beingness information that is bringing down the prime of beingness for the surrounding area."
According to Sheriff Zanoni, the eviction is not related to Governor Newsom’s caller enforcement order oregon Fresno County’s stateless cleanup ordinance arsenic those notation to nationalist land. Friday's enactment was described by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office arsenic a court-ordered eviction.
"This is simply a backstage spot proprietor who has these radical fundamentally illegally connected his spot with this encampment," Zanoni said.
"The ordinance lone applies to nationalist property, truthful connected backstage property, radical are inactive going to person to spell done the penal codification for trespassing oregon the eviction benignant of process."
Zanoni says each of the stateless radical who were evicted were offered services from Kings View Advocacy Center, but adds that nary of them accepted that assistance.
Carmen Mariscal had been surviving successful the encampment for 5 months. She says she refused services to proceed moving arsenic a landscaper successful Raisin City.
"I enactment present [not the City of Fresno]," Mariscal said. "I person nary car and I don't cognize however to drive. How americium I expected to marque it present to work?"
Mariscal says if determination were places to rent successful Raisin City she wouldn't person to unrecorded successful an encampment. She says she does person relatives successful Fresno but chooses not to determination successful with them.
Sheriff Zanoni says determination is inactive 1 proceeding near to find the aboriginal of Fresno County's stateless encampments ordinance. If it is passed, it volition lone impact nationalist land; backstage evictions volition inactive person to spell done the Penal Code.
Sheriff Zanoni says backstage concern owners tin debar ample evictions similar this 1 by instantly confronting unhoused individuals and letting them cognize they're not allowed to enactment - arsenic good arsenic contacting instrumentality enforcement earlier it's excessively late.
