[OMS_MANAGERS] Homeless/Vagrancy

[Paul M Cohen]

If some comes on your property without your permission or refuse to leave they are trespassing. At least in Beaverton we are required to post a sign saying when someone might be trespassing. Once posted and paperwork is filed with the police, the police can enforce your request first by warning the person they are trespassing and the person needs to leave and then arresting them if they return.

I have been on the jury for 2 trials for trespassing both settled before we deliberated.

I am not a lawyer, so I am just explaining how it works.

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> On Mar 8, 2017, at 8:14 PM, Sheldon Delph <s_delph at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry if this sounds snarky, but can anyone explain where the term "trespassed" came from? Traditional use is that the guilty had trespassed onto someone else's property, but locally, the 911 dispatch folks use it to describe the police response to a report of a trespasser. It seems to most often be listed as "the person was trespassed for life." No ticket, no court hearing, no chance for due process. It seems to not meet Constitutional muster, but is effective.
> --SHELDON DELPH, Weston
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> On Mar 8, 2017 5:14 PM, Joan Wessell <wessellj at peak.org> wrote:
>    Our Police Department created a Trespass Form that we can complete , return to the Police Department and have someone trespassed from our buildings.
> Folks who file the form are encourage to post “No Trespassing” signs and it has worked like a charm for Starbucks, after being warned by customers that they would stop going to Downtown Starbucks unless they kept the homeless from hanging out in the store’s seating area.  The homeless had been hanging out in significant numbers previously, and they have virtually disappeared after the No Trespassing sign was posted. If a trespasser returns to a business after they have been trespassed, Police can arrest them.  
>    The form has not removed all the homeless from Downtown Corvallis, but it has provided an incredible tool for our Downtown business and property owners.  
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> Joan Wessell, EdM, CMSM
> Executive Director
> Downtown Corvallis Association
> PO Box 1536, Corvallis OR   97339
> 460 SW Madison, Suite 9 Corvallis OR  97333
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> joan at downtowncorvallis.org
> www.downtowncorvallis.org
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> Downtown Corvallis...just what you're looking for!
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>> On Mar 8, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Sarah Heath <sarah at astoriadowntown.com> wrote:
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>> The funnest topic!
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>> Does anyone have a novel approach to removing folks from doorways?
>> What about a simple document explaining what the police can and cannot do to move the homeless?
>>  
>> Sarah Lu Heath
>> Executive Director
>> Astoria Downtown Historic District Association
>> No.1-12th Street, Suite 114
>> PO Box 261 
>> Astoria, OR 97103
>> 503.791.7940
>> Sarah at AstoriaDowntown.com
>> www.AstoriaDowntown.com
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