Curry County leased the parcel to a local business owner for $1 in order to swiftly dismantle a homeless camp on a slip of public property in Brookings.
This made it possible for sheriff’s deputies to give the final camper, a paraplegic guy residing in a tent, a criminal citation for trespassing on private property.
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Maxine Bernstein
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