Draft Legislation

Every City sponsored outreach worker, police officer, or street response team called to intervene in an encampment,

Shall inform the camper of the:

Permission to camp must be extended to at least

   1. One designated corner in every public park for overnight bivouacing, and emergency outdoor shelter during seismic events. 
   2. One designated vacant lot in every Neighborhood Council region for camping of one week or longer,
   3. City sponsored "safe rest villages" with temporary shelter for one month or longer
   4. Applicants to said village must be allowed to camp in the nearby assigned vacant lot, or other adjacent suburb camp, for up to one month pending admittance.

Campers who stipulate to a “Good Neighbor Agreement”, must be allowed. Local property owners who do not stipulate to a good neighbor agreement, should not receive response from Law Enforcement to their complaints except to educate them on what the law requires and allows.

Concise and easily cognizable summary of existing Oregon Statutes and Moral Law

   1.  No Murder or other personal injury. No threats of violence
   2.  No Adultery or other sex crimes.  No bothering neighborhood youth.
   3.  No Man-stealing, enslavement, coercion, false imprisonment, kidnapping.
   4.  No Perjury in court, or false reports in a juridicial process
   5.  No Covetousness - no theft or damage of movable property, tresspass or encroachment

Post a copy of these mandatory rules on nearby infrastructure, And then inform him of any other Time, Place, Manner Prohibitions, which must be objectively reasonable. It is suggested and highly recommended that the camper be provided with a travel-size bottle of Doctor Bronner's Soap, with his creatively poetic exposition of the “Moral ABC” that “sets all mankind free”, etc.

Shall provide the owner of each tent with a copy of the Scouting USA Manual or Boy Scout Manual. Shall raise his or her and their right hand, and make the following pledge, or one substantially similar:

“On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my City and Neighborhood, to be a good neighbor, to assist the public at all times, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally upright”

And invite the camper to either voluntarily learn this pledge and recite it, or else sign a “Good neighbor pledge” agreeing to comply with the mandatory rules posted.

Anything less than this is objectively unreasonable, and we reserve the right to challenge the legislation in State or Federal Court.

We urge Multnomah County to exercise leadership in providing campsites that are low-cost, low-maintenance, and low barrier to entry, and respectful of neighborhoods and neighborhood rights, according to the principles outlined here. It can succeed at this by re-assigning some of its county and district attorneys, judges, and public defenders to serve as magistrates and advise neighborhood councils which would provide the forum for self-government, according to the “good neighbor agreement” stipulated here, which may be ratified and amended as necessary by each neighborhood council district according to its own deliberative process. These will have to train participants to mediate conflicts, judge the accused, assign reasonable penalties of community service, excommunicate defiant offenders, and hear appeals as necessary.

320 Update Public Camping Restriction Policies, TBH April 24th 4:00 PM

The full text will be added, with 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.