Following the Supreme Court's ruling that cities can ban "camping" in public spaces, Manchester, New Hampshire, lost no time.
Under new rules passed by the Manchester Board of Alderman, law enforcement can now remove people from city streets at any time of day or night, and anyone found camping in public areas can be fined $250.
"If you want help, and you need help in the City of Manchester, it exists. What we won't tolerate is people breaking our laws or ignoring our ordinances," Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais said. "It's the enforcement mechanism that we have in place. This is not criminalizing it. Nobody's going to jail as a result of this. This is the deterrence effect."
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that Grants Pass, Oregon, is allowed to enforce its ordinance against camping in public spaces.
Thanks to the Supreme Court, now people can't use the 8th Amendment to hand homeless people the right to use public spaces as camp sites, drug dens, and toilets: something the Court's three liberal judges somehow oppose.
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