Comment on Lawsuit filed over Seattle’s cleanups of homeless camps

Lawsuit filed over Seattle’s cleanups of homeless camps

SEATTLE — Two homeless people in Seattle filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging the city and the state’s cleanups of unauthorized homeless camps are unlawful. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, says the homeless camp sweeps are “unnecessarily cruel” and violate the rights of people living in them, The Seattle Times reported. Brandie Osborne and Lisa Hooper are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. They claim homeless residents have their property seized during the sweeps without adequate and effective notice and their belongings get destroyed. “Imagine if government agents came to your home and carted away everything you own, without any warning and without telling you how to get back whatever they didn’t throw out,” Emily Chiang, the ACLU of Washington’s legal director, said in a statement.

 

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