In California, more than 180,000 people were experiencing ... arresting people for camping in public areas — from a parked car to a tent at the park or a blanket on the sidewalk — when they ...

Fresno council members agreed to tweak a local law Thursday, providing clarity as the city cracks down on illegal camping.

Johnson ruling in June allowing localities to ban outdoor camping even if there is no homeless shelter space available, ...

Fed up with tents taking up sidewalks ... by working with states to ban urban camping and arrest people who don’t comply. But many cities in California already started doing that this year ...