In a court filing, L.A. argues it isn& #39;t in contempt of a court order barring it from seizing or destroying homeless people& #39;s items based solely on size. It says that although faulty notices went up, bulky items were not destroyed based on size during the ensuing cleanups:
L.A. argues "there is no evidence that any person relied on these notices to their detriment or suffered any harm as a result of the notices."
In a legal declaration, a sanitation official says that between July 29, 2020 to August 3, 2020, city employees put overlays on more than 3,000 permanent signs to conceal references to the term "bulky items." https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.752874/gov.uscourts.cacd.752874.95.0.pdf">https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov...
Here& #39;s our story on the court order barring L.A. from tossing out bulky items solely because they& #39;re, well, bulky: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-13/homeless-people-carts-seized-destroyed-size-us-district-judge-ruling">https://www.latimes.com/californi...