Legal Question in Constitutional Law in California

Homeless rights

I claim violation of the equal protection clause because I was treated differently from other homeless people. I was treated from the penalty side of the law while other homeless are given housing.

I claim violation of the equal protection clause because homeless people sleep every day in their vehicles within one block of the police station.

I claim violation of the equal protection clause because police regularly sleep in their vehicles behind Heidi's Pies in tghe early morning hours--not in ''hot pursuit.''

I claim I am also protected under Secion 1 of the California Constitution in that I was defending my life and obtaining security by staying in a vehicle.

I claim the law is vague and does not say what it means. It denies the right to ''sleep'' in a vehicle when what it means is ''live'' in a vehicle.

I claim no determination was made as to my status as ''sleeping'' before following a punitive course of action.

I claim that denying me the right to live in my vehicle denies me a right to my livelihood because savings money has to be diverted to housing. Since I live on a fixed income, paying for housing reduces by more than 50% the amount I can save for my future.

I claim that the police, by repeatedly MORE

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