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DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Defund the Police - ReFund the Community March from the 
 Clock Tower to City Hall this Tuesday. to protest the cruel city organized 
 campaign against those who live outside. \n\nAt 7:30 PM, the Community 
 Advisory Committee on Homelessness (CACH) Co-Chair and City staff will 
 present their report.  It  plans to do little other than criminalize the 
 unhoused and continue to take people's vehicular homes.  It is on the same 
 agenda as are negotiations to increase the budget of the police and a 
 funding two more CSO's to enforce anti-tobacco laws.\n\nThe Tuesday City 
 Council meeting is, as usual, only accessible by zoom and phone, 
 effectively excluding poorer people and the unhoused.  Unlike the Board of 
 Supervisors who actually open their chamber to the public, the City Council 
 has refused to use the Civic to do so, though that would allow for safe 
 spacing.\n\nThe CACH committee was formed during the meeting to evict more 
 than 200 unhoused people from behind Ross into the doorways and parks of 
 Santa Cruz. \n\nInput from the homeless community into this report was not 
 possible as the meetings were scheduled when people who live outside were 
 not able to participate. \n\nOne of the few CACH members who was homeless 
 was kicked out of the River Street Camp because he was late as a result of 
 attending the CACH meeting. This camp was set up in preparation for the 
 Ross Camp eviction.\n\nSusie O'Hara, Assistant to the City Manager, lied to 
 a Federal Judge claiming that everyone at the Ross Camp would get shelter 
 or housing knowing that was not true. She will be giving the report Tuesday 
 night. The City Council report on homelessness issued in 2017 claimed the 
 police spent over $14 million to arrest and torment the homeless.\n\nThe 
 city just made a sweep of the Benchlands driving at least 100 people into 
 the parks and doorways. The CDC guidelines says that sweeps of homeless 
 camps is a danger to the community. The city is also ticketing and towing 
 vehicular homes at a stunning rate as thousands of more people are facing 
 homelessness in our county.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835811.php
SUMMARY:Defund the Police; Refund the Community
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Town Clock
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/10/18835811.php
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