EscInd: Action Plan for June 24, 2024
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of June 24, 2024! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Events
- Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #11 on a ban of homeless encampments. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, July 11, 2024, 6:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Actions
Election 2024
- Plan to vote. The Presidential Election will be on November 5, 2024. Register to vote if you’re eligible to vote, check your voter registration, sign-up to track your mail ballot and plan to vote. Information is not available yet, but our Escondido municipal election will include District 3 and 4.
- Read-up on Isolated and inexperienced: A portrait of Judge Aileen Cannon from veterans of her courtroom and Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on Justice Thomas discloses two 2019 trips paid for by Harlan Crow and Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas Additional Private Jet Flights: Senate Investigators.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to enforce a code of conduct for the Supreme Court (see previous proposed S.325/H.R.927) and expand SCOTUS such as S.1616/H.R.3422. See Demand Your Representative Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023 and Demand your Senator Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023.
- In-Related News: read-up on North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code.
Homelessness
- Read-up on Escondido City Council Meeting Agenda Item #11 on a ban of homeless encampments.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to oppose a ban on homeless encapments without providing alternative options such as a Safe Sleeping Site Program similar to San Diego City and a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas or Vista to meet the immediate needs of our community.
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In Brief: Previously, the Escondido City Council had rejected funding for one of two homelessness shelters in Escondido and adopted a policy that rejects Housing First and calls for a “public safety-first” approach to addressing homelessness.
More recently, the San Diego County Regional Task Force on Homelessness (RTFH) reports 549 residents in Escondido who are experiencing homelessness in 2024 (up from 488 or 13% increase from 2023), 401 of which are unsheltered (up from 304 or 32% increase) and the highest unsheltered population in North County, and about 126 emergency shelter beds in inventory which is no where enough to meet the immediate needs of our community.
Now, Escondido City is proposing to ban homeless encampments without providing alternative options such as a Safe Sleeping Site Program similar to San Diego City and a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas or Vista and without increasing the number of available emergency shelter beds.
- #TBT: Read-up on With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors, To sweep homeless camps, California cities say they offer shelter. What that really means is up for debate and Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps.
- In-Related News: read-up on North County Report: Escondido’s Budget Woes - and a Possible Future Solution.
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