A civil rights attorney filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Fresno alleging the homeless community has been criminalized and unduly prosecuted after the city adopted its anti-camping ordinance.
Attorney Kevin Little’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. Eastern District of California, names two Fresno men who live on the street in the class action for the homeless community in requesting damages and injunctive relief for false arrest, malicious prosecution and 24 other causes of action against the city.
The lawsuit follows hundreds of arrests and citations for unhoused people who violated Fresno’s anti-camping law, which allows police to arrest people living on the street who decline assistance from the city…