Sacramento police this morning were citing and moving homeless people from a downtown lot where a Sacramento attorney has allowed them to camp.
About 30 people have been living at a makeshift homeless camp on a vacant lot on C Street between 12th and 13th streets, even as police warned that they are breaking the law.
"The individuals out here have been contacted multiple times in the past two weeks and they have been informed they are in violation of the Sacramento city camping ordinance," said Sacramento police spokeswoman Laura Peck. "We are out here citing those folks."
Peck said police are hopeful the homeless will gather their belongings and leave. Police are offering containers to the homeless to help gather up belongings.
About a dozen homeless people were on the site when police arrive, but police counted 33 tents on the lot.
Sacramento attorney Mark Merin has been leasing the land to a group of advocates who want the city to establish a legal "safe ground" where homeless people can sleep without police interference.
Mayor Kevin Johnson said the new camp threatens to become "a negative distraction" to efforts by the city to establish a sanctioned "safe ground."
A press release from homeless advocates sent out this morning is requesting that people come to the site "to bear witness" to the break up of the campground.
Source Sac Bee
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