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PRESS ADVISORY Where are they to go? Where can they live? Stockton Blvd houseless community face displacement by police What: Solidarity with Stockton Blvd Encampment Residents When:  Wednesday, February 12, 10 AM Where: 5700 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA Who: Sacramento Homeless … Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September  18, 2018 CONTACTS: Paula Lomazzi, Executive Director, Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee 916-862-8649 Ÿ shoc_1@yahoo.com Ÿ  SHOC Paul Boden, Executive Director, Western Regional Advocacy Project 415-621-2533 Ÿ pboden@wraphome.org What: UC Berkeley Report Release Where: Sacramento City Hall, 915 I St.  Sacramento, CA When: September 18, 2018 … Continue reading →

SHOC joined this Lawsuit along with Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness  (SRCEH) and James (Faygo) Clark.  

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Free Speech in Jeopardy A panhandling ordinance will be brought forward at this Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Previously we’ve had an ordinance forbidding aggressive panhandling. If passed this new version will make it illegal to panhandle within 30 feet from … Continue reading →

Camping Ordinance Trial Results Ashmore et al vs City of Sacramento trial was challenging the city’s camping ordinance as being selectively enforced. The case began eight years ago stemming from multiple arrests and citations of a group of homeless people that … Continue reading →

SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS CHANGE TO THEIR ANTI-PANHANDLING ORDINANCE Currently aggressive panhandling and soliciting for donations from a median or off-ramp of a freeway is against the law. Their proposed changes would make it against the law to panhandle within … Continue reading →