Now today, the Supreme Court will hear a case on the homelessness crisis and whether cities like ours, San Diego can punish people for living on the streets. That's right. So this is a big development here. CBS A's Chris Row live downtown. Now to explain what this all entails. What's at stake here, Chris because this can impact the local ordinance that we have going on right now. The unsafe camping ordinance that has been in place for, again, a reminder on what that entails that actually again prevents people from camping, sleeping on public property if there are shelter beds available, but that shelter bed availability provision goes away if they are near school park or shelter. Now, the case that the Supreme Court is looking at right now from 2018, Johnson V Grant's pass, a city in Oregon began ticketing people for sleeping in public. It's been challenged and ruled unconstitutional. It made its way all the way through the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld that ruling saying giving fines or jail time to people on the streets when there isn't shelter available was cruel and unusual punishment. Now, it's the Supreme court that will then review the case. Now, we are going to be hearing from some advocates for those who are unsheltered here today. They will be rallying downtown again trying to make sure that that appeals decision which upheld again is something that they want to see echoed by the Supreme Court. They want to see that this was originally ruled unconstitutional. And then of course, we'll have to see how it is that that would impact and affect what is happening here locally. We'll be speaking with those advocates in just a short bit for now. We're going to send things back to you in the studio.
