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Lottorto Santa Ana reOndillancQ No. NS -2926
<br />October 17, 2017
<br />Pauge 2 of 3
<br />October 17, 2017, vviiich would give the City ti'lle to revise the October 3, 2017 Ordinance and
<br />incorporate:public and Counciblielliber concerns.
<br />On October 12, 2017, at the City's request. LASOC and other IcipLI acjvk)cQtLs n, ttelitlec.1 a
<br />ineeling wiul 'C"Ity sudTw "Chil"Cuss concerns with the October % 2,0 I TOrdinanco. Al the mecting,
<br />flie City p-,ovidID(I 'advocates with revisions le the Octobel-3. 2017 Ordinance, made alter the
<br />Octobei- 1, 2017 meeting (" Revised 0rdhiance"). The Revised Ordinance mademinox cliariges :ten
<br />the Oeluber '). 2017 Ordinance but contimied wcrinlillalin, hornlessness by restricting homerless
<br />'Scrvkes and Inaking it :illegal w possess err use basic necessities. including lents. Over . the , tjl,S
<br />0 , OD e of
<br />Inecting—LASOC' and other advocates leviev"edetach provision ofdic Revised
<br />O'l-dimance wiffiti,ty suff. discussing the legal and pi"acticol problems witli its adoplioll and
<br />C11,1,01cemeat. City st-affslated it pintended to raiRc aill cellaerns wfth 'City'Coxi'llcil foropus sfera�tian.
<br />1-1mvever, the very next day, Dn t0clotlar 1 3), 2017, the,C:iLY released anA,ganda and Staff
<br />porl ll,,eco.niiiieiieizill'&',tllat um Oily ,council mlo-pt the Remised Ord-buirloc as Ordinance No. N.S-
<br />29Z0,,even :though Ilic City had not addressed anyof LASOCIS or the other advocates' zallcertl &
<br />The,cilly, change the )City made to tile Revised Ordinance after the October 1"2.2017 rneeling was to
<br />sidd aprovisian restriming the amber ani snal-s -permilted at the Civic CellIer.
<br />Accordingly. LAS OC opposes adoptioli of Ordilla nce No. N S,2,926- Like tIleearlier drafts,
<br />OrAiliance No. NS -2926 u1justly restricts scjwlioes to [hp honaclesssonnnn unity anal Zrinlimlizes
<br />zholnel'o"nics's by,making it illegal toposseis.trms.-and other basic necessities, in -toialclisreguld for
<br />11,0111zles's resi'dents, inAcTeSIS illp.ri-vacy. Cree'doln"Of I'llovellmit. and basichumandignity. Allfbough
<br />the City lois stated the purposeofOrdinanze No. NS -292,6 is to pmornale health and salty, the
<br />ordjjlauue -4leldrassil-I.&I dais concern because il prohAmits items ill -ell homeless residents
<br />.use to survive. Th.m. courulylo the City'-sstated inbeuL Ordinance No. NS -22,92,6 would actually
<br />w0l!sell he dlh end safety conditions forhounaless residents.
<br />Ordinance M,). N5-2926 would also creatca signifltcanl nncl.clisinropartionate impact oil
<br />pyeoplevvit1h oisabifilits, vdin'rely -heamfly oil hormelebs services ailchvlluse disdbiTilics may be
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<br />exacetued -without -access wnl
<br />sane of the items probib—S
<br />iledsuch as tents. 42 U,C. § 12132
<br />,F'urdler. Ordinance No. N -S-29.2,0 impficates homeless 1esicic"Is' I-iighls ruder the Fourth, Eighth,
<br />and JLo Alle tjlljlucl States Con'stilatiall, Which proleut Ilmse individuals"
<br />ri,gints to be free frons un=1sanable searches,,and seizure, froin seizures wilbout due, ppoecss of IaNy,
<br />and fi I
<br />, �oji..i being pm:i-shod hosed Dil their -huJTTeIeSSSIatLIS. See, t, 9, Jones v CilyplIvs Ang.dvs, 444
<br />F.3d 111$_ 1 132 (9th Cit. 2006), La ren v. City o,.f Los An,69' .1 )C"
<br />20 12.. gules,f-.3 11022, 1032-33 (9th Cir.
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