Placer County boots homeless from government land
By Brenna Lyles, Sacramento Bee
Dozens of homeless people camped out on the grounds of the Placer County government complex in north Auburn were forced to leave Thursday as a new ordinance took effect banning unauthorized camping on county-owned land.
Authorities estimated that 50 to 70 people had occupied camps sprawled across the county property. The camps started about a year ago and grew over time.
Jamie Brody, 37, who has been homeless for a year and a half, packs her belongings at a popular transient encampment in Auburn on Thursday. Residents of the encampment were evacuating after a Placer County ordinance banned unauthorized camping on county land.