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Are you aware that [b]other states round up busloads of their homeless and give them a one-way ticket to Northern California[/b]?  We have sued cities for doing that to us.  I am not insane. If I were, I'd be homeless.  :)  I absolutely support more homeless shelters, more free drug rehabs, etc.  I support the needle exchange programs. I don't know how you think I personally am creating a situation where a junkie shoots up, and hope you will explain that to me.  Nobody votes for tent cities.  But I'll point out to you that when Recology (trash) comes by to tear down tent cities in SF, the homeless people living in those encampments just walk to another neighborhood and set up there.  We're just shuffling homeless people from place to place.  If we knew what the solution was for people too mentally ill to work enough to earn enough to have a roof over their heads, we'd do it.  We just can't figure that out.[/quote]
Yep, but not just to NorCal, but all over CA, and includes those with mental illness and sex offenders.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Nevada-Settles-Homeless-Dumping-Lawsuit-369736411.html
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According to lawsuit recently settled, a Nevada mental hospital was accused of sending 500 patients by Greyhound bus to San Diego and other California cities.

Christopher Earl Destrude was one of the patients from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas who ended up in San Diego, according to the lawsuit.

Law enforcement records confirm Destrude was classified as a sex offender in Montana following his 2004 conviction for sexual intercourse without consent. According to the Montana records, Destrude’s victim was a 9-year-old girl.

According to news reports, Destrude fled Montana in January 2011 after failing to register as a sex offender. He made his way to Las Vegas where police arrested him, records show. Destrude was sent to the Rawson-Neal Hospital, but patient busing receipts obtained by the Sacramento Bee confirm the hospital bought Dustrude a bus ticket for San Diego on Jan. 26, 2011.

[b]In 2013, Herrera sued the state of Nevada and various Nevada state agencies, alleging that Rawson-Neal Hospital administrators sent a “substantial number of… mentally ill and indigent” patients to California, “despite the fact that virtually all the patients… required continuing medical care” were not residents of California and “were not provided any instructions or assistance in finding shelter… or basic necessities,” according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleged the patients applied for and received a total of $500,000 worth of housing support, medical care and “basic necessities,” paid for by San Francisco taxpayers.
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Court records reveal San Francisco prosecutors reached out to colleagues in other cities, including San Diego, to gauge their interest in joining the lawsuit.

Despite Christopher Destrude’s well-documented arrest in San Diego, a spokesman for City Attorney Jan Goldsmith told NBC 7 Investigates that in 2013, legal investigators here did look into reports of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Hospital but could not confirm that it happened in San Diego.
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McElroy said homeless “dumping” is well known and openly discussed by social service agencies.[/b][/quote][/quote]

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