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Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of
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Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of
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Fund for Empowerment is a challenge to the City of Phoenix’s practice of conducting sweeps of encampments without notice, issuing citations to unsheltered people for camping and sleeping on public property when they have no place else to go, and confiscating and destroying their property without notice or process.
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