Public Housing

Oakland, Calif., and its Housing Authority Police stop, arrest, search, handcuff and harass public housing authority residents for merely standing or sitting — “loitering”— in their own front yards, two men claim in a <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Constitution.pdf">federal complaint</a></strong>.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland, Calif., and its Housing Authority Police stop, arrest, search, handcuff and harass public housing authority residents for merely standing or sitting — “loitering”— in their own front yards, two men claim in a federal complaint .

Categories / Civil Rights

Subscribe to our free newsletters

Our weekly newsletter Closing Arguments offers the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world, while the monthly Under the Lights dishes the legal dirt from Hollywood, sports, Big Tech and the arts.