ACLU Sues to Protect Garbage, Drugs, Prostitution

(Fresno, California) The city of Fresno decides to clean up hazardous homeless camps on downtown city property and the ACLU files a lawsuit.

From SacBee.com:

City officials said the tent cities set up by the homeless are safety hazards, a nuisance and hotbeds of crime.

"The sweeps are done when neighbors start to complain about the smell, the tons of garbage that accumulates, and the drug use and prostitution that goes on," said Rhonda Jorn, a spokeswoman for the city.

"We have to be fair to the people that live in the area," she said.

The city posts fliers in advance giving the homeless notice that workers will be clearing out a settlement, giving people an opportunity to gather their personal items, she said.

Although advance notice of the cleanup was provided, the ACLU claims that the sweeps "violate the constitutional right to be free of unreasonable seizure of property and deprivation of property without due process of law."

Next, a judge decides what's 'fair.'

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