{"id":97400,"date":"2025-12-16T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:00:20","slug":"criminalizing-homelessness-in-fresno-lawsuit-claims-citys-ordinance-punishes-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97400\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminalizing homelessness in Fresno? Lawsuit claims city&#8217;s ordinance punishes poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"abody\" style=\"text-indent:0in\">A class action lawsuit now pending in the U.S. District<br \/>\nCourt for the Eastern District of California asks a question that cities across<br \/>\nthe country continue to confront: Can a municipality respond to visible<br \/>\nhomelessness by arresting people for existing in public space when it lacks the<br \/>\ncapacity to offer them a real alternative? In Fresno, that question has<br \/>\nsharpened into a constitutional challenge th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A class action lawsuit now pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California asks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-97400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}