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 **Our Proposed Amendments will be added Bold, soon.   For the reasons stated above, we find the ordinance to be inadequate and objectively unreasonable and unlikely to survive a legal challenge, which we may bring if the council legislates it.**
+======History and Present of Portland Houseless Policy=====
+       * July 2024 [[https://www.opb.org/article/2024/07/30/multnomah-county-sheriff-nicole-morrisey-odonnell-says-wont-jail-homelessness/|Sherriff Morrisey-ODonnell refuses to book houseless persons for mere violation of municipal ordinance]].  “Arresting and booking our way out of the housing crisis is not a constructive solution,” Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell wrote, and we concur.  [[https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/07/30/mayor-blames-sheriff-for-declining-to-book-man-arrested-for-violating-citys-camping-rules/|Mayor Wheeler and the whole city council are surprised by this]], but they shouldn't be.
+       * [[wp>City of Grant's Pass v. Johnson]] overturns the precedent of [[wp>Martin v. Boise]], which had held that criminalization of sleeping bags, tents, and makeshift shelter constituted "cruel and unusual punishment", prohibited by the [[wp>Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] to the U.S. Constitution.