Chico Shines a Light, But Activists Here Must Do the Heavy Lifting Down Chico way, a Senior Sacramento Judge of the Eastern Division of the Federal District Court has stopped encampment sweeps dead in their tracks city-wide with a TRO in the Commanche Creek Greenway case. This was justified not by the fading COVID-19 shelter-in-place concerns, but rather by lack of shelter or campground alternatives for those being rousted. NEW HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS IN CHICO In a sweeping Temporary Restraining Order, Federal Judge Morrison C. England has blocked Chico cops and bureaucrats from ***Moving on the Comanche Creek Green Way encampment ***Blocking all such sweeps City-wide in Chico ***Freezing anti-homeless Municipal Codes in the City ***Banning enforcement of the state’s anti-panhandling law (647c) ***Protecting all property of the City’s homeless, even that valued at $100 or less. Story continues at length with text of the TRO and original newspaper story at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/04/12/18841549.php