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Houseless Issues During the Coronavirus Emergency
Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, people were reporting continuing sweeps in Portland. On
February 20, Portland Copwatch members talked with a number of houseless people on the inner
On January 29, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the 2014 conviction of Alexandra Barrett for violating Portland's ban against camping on public property ordinance. Though Barrett lost the case, nine of the 11 appeals court judges carefully pointed out they were not ruling on the constitutionality of the ban, only that Barrett did not provide enough information to support her case. This means another challenge could invalidate the law (Oregonlive, January 29). Portland Copwatch put out a reminder to the community on March 31 urging people to call or text our incident report line at 503-321-5120 if police issue warnings, citations or arrests for violating the stay-at-home orders, since we know the first people targeted will be those in vulnerable populations like houseless folks and people of color. |
May, 2020
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east side who reported continuing sweeps.
After discussion of how forcing campers to disperse is
especially bad practice during a pandemic, Mayor Wheeler announced on March 27 that Portland
suspended camp "clean-ups" except where camps are posing an immediate danger. He added that
when the state of emergency is lifted, the City will go back to "business as usual."