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Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit

San Rafael officials have struggled to address public safety issues surrounding a large homeless encampment near a middle school.
Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit
The "Camp Integrity" homeless encampment on Andersen Drive in San Rafael, Calif., on April 16, 2024. Brian Back/The Epoch Times
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The city council of San Rafael in Marin County, California, voted unanimously in a public hearing that ran late into Monday night, April 15, to approve a more relaxed version of its ordinance dealing with homeless camps and where they are allowed.

The ordinance was originally approved by the council in July 2023 to help curb violence, crime, fires, and littering at an encampment dubbed “Camp Integrity” in the Mahon Creek area near James B. Davidson Middle School.

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Brian Back is a longtime small business entrepreneur in California. He previously was founding editor and publisher of San Francisco-based Sustainable Industries, a reporter and columnist for the Portland Business Journal, staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a contributor to several other local and national media outlets. He earned an M.A. in journalism from Georgia State University and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Dayton.