Santa Cruz City Council members voted today to waive overnight camping citations issued to homeless people if they are on a shelter wait list. Current rules allow the city to waive such tickets when the winter shelter at the former National Guard Armory site is full. However, it doesn’t cover times when other year-round shelters are full, but the long-standing practice has been to dismiss citations written when the shelters are full. The city attorney is expected to work out the details about wait list verification with shelter providers.
