Here's what the Supreme Court’s homelessness ruling means for South Bay

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could dramatically reshape the way several South Bay cities regulate homelessness.

The ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson gives West Coast cities broad power to fine or arrest people for sleeping in public, overturning years of legal protections for unhoused residents.

Federal courts previously said local laws against camping or sleeping in public could violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment if the city did not also offer shelter beds or other forms of emergency housing.

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