Since settling a 2016 lawsuit, L.A. has been restricted from tossing homeless people’s personal property. Now, property owners and residents of shelters on Skid Row are going to court, saying the settlement has brought rats and disease into the area.
A spokesman for City Atty. Mike Feuer said the city had no comment. A hearing is set for Aug. 12.
, challenging the constitutionality of seizures of their property during sweeps by police and sanitation workers. Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the original case did not respond to messages.
Members include Inner City Arts President Bob Smiland and several residents of the Union Rescue Mission, a skid row shelter headed by the Rev. Andy Bales. Smiland and Bales are on the board of the business improvement district for the downtown industrial district, which handles security and cleanups on skid row. But neither group is involved in the court petition.Belongings of the homeless on a skid row sidewalk in May.
Mitchell and attorney Matthew Umhofer said they could not discuss who is paying for the litigation. The Central City Assn., a powerful downtown business group, also is not funding it, according to its president, Jessica Lall.
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