Federal Judge Ordered Nearby Cities Into Court To Detail Homeless Services Plans
Written by 991KBU on February 2, 2021
A federal court judge in Los Angeles is fed up with the way cities in Southern California are failing to get homeless people indoors.
Last week’s rainstorm created “extraordinarily harsh” conditions for homeless residents of Los Angeles.
“These conditions cannot be allowed to continue!” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in a strongly worded order on Sunday.
Carter has ordered city and county officials to appear at a Skid Row shelter to explain what his happening.
Malibu is not a party to the lawsuit … filed last March by the LA Alliance for Human Rights.
The federal judge has agreed that officials in greater Los Angeles have failed to comprehensively address the homelessness problem.
Malibu is not specifically named in that lawsuit … but other small coastal cities are …. and have been ordered to open homeless shelters or safe parking areas.
Malibu officials say they expect to be ordered to comply with the federal court order … to open some sort of facility in Malibu to address persons living in the open here … people who are not from Malibu.
The Thursday meeting may end up with local governments entering into a consent agreement … with the federal judge directly running homeless services not only in LA but in every other city on Orange and Los Angeles counties.
