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Sacramento DA Threatens Criminal Charges Against City Over Contaminated Homeless ‘Camp Resolution’ Site

November 16, 2023 7:58 amNovember 16, 2023 6:52 pm

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho is threatening criminal charges against the City of Sacramento and Sacramento Attorney Mark Merin over the city sanctioned homeless camp “Camp Resolution”as a “safe parking shelter” in north Sacramento, alleging the city-leased site is...

Sacramento Homeless Crisis has Caused ‘Erosion of Every Day Life;’ City is ‘Collapsing into Chaos’

October 3, 2023 8:35 amOctober 4, 2023 6:58 am

Sacramento’s homeless drug-addicted, mentally-ill, criminal vagrant population have clearly shown they can’t govern or take care of themselves. They have been allowed to camp, squat and roam unrestrained in the Sacramento region. They are disrupting daily business life in Sacramento’s...

The Globe Talks With Sacramento DA & Attorney Following Public Safety Lawsuits Against City

September 20, 2023 3:55 pmSeptember 20, 2023 3:56 pm

Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho announced Tuesday at a press conference that he filed a lawsuit against the City of Sacramento for failing to abate the homeless crisis in the Capitol city, and for failing to consistently following the...

New Lawsuit Against City of Sacramento Over Ongoing Homeless Policy Violations

August 18, 2023 4:26 amAugust 18, 2023 5:55 pm

Last July 2022 the Globe reported that a 24-hour homeless respite center on the outermost fringe of the City of Sacramento was going to be turned into a 50-bed homeless shelter – right next door to the Sacramento Children’s Receiving...

Gov. Newsom Spreads Around another $240 Million of Billion$ Allocated to Clean Up Homeless Encampments

December 2, 2022 2:45 amDecember 2, 2022 6:37 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced Thursday afternoon another $240 million is available from the Encampment Resolution Fund grant program – part of the $700 million two-year program – to close down homeless encampments and get people into housing and shelter....

Gov. Newsom Shirks Blame for Increasing Homelessness in Golden State

November 30, 2022 3:46 pm

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was convening “local leaders to discuss their plans to tackle the homelessness crisis and identify new strategies and opportunities to more ambitiously address street encampments across the state.” What this means is...

Family ‘Threatened’ for Supporting Sacramento’s Del Rio Trail Project

November 20, 2022 2:44 amNovember 21, 2022 7:32 am

“It was ugly,” Brian Ebbert told community members assembled near the Sacramento Utilities Department on 35th Avenue in South Land Park. “They threatened my children.” Ebbert, who earns $198,000 working for the California State Assembly and is a former president...