MODESTO (CBS13) — They’re seen all over town: shopping carts dumped after people take them from grocery stores and use them to transport their belongings.
The City of Modesto and the Modesto Police Department have found a high-tech solution to combat this part of homelessness.
For people like Victor Brummett, these carts hold life’s belongings.
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Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling camp here that has sprung up along a popular recreation corridor. It’s a community, Gibson says, that often feels caught between opposing forces who aren’t always listening.
“I mean, they [local officials] want us to be able to govern ourselves, but they are not giving us the tools we need,” Gibson says. “They don’t want you hiding, but they don’t want you in their face, you know?”
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Turlock and other cities across the nation’s hands have been effectively tied in how to deal with the homeless by the United States Supreme Court.
The high court refused to review a 9th District decision that makes it harder for cities to keep homeless people from sleeping on the streets.
Twenty California cities filed “friends of the court” briefs in a bid to get the Supreme Court to consider hearing an appeal on the 9th District Appellate Court ruling regarding Boise, Idaho law that made it illegal for the homeless to sleep on the street.
The court ruled that Boise could not constitutionally make it a crime for the homeless to sleep on the streets or in public places if there is no shelter available for the homeless.
“It is disappointing that the Supreme Court will not grant a hearing on the 9th Circuits’ Boise decision,” said Turlock Police Captain Steven Williams.
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A video of a 52-year-old homeless woman whose opera singing talent has scored her a recording deal from a Grammy nominated producer has gone viral.
Emily Zamourka is known among Los Angeles residents for her angelic voice.
A video of her singing has received more than one million views.
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