Subject: Urgent Concern Regarding Encampment Cleanup Practices, Disability Accommodations, and Enforcement Fairness From: eugenia granados < >
To: [email protected]
Cc: ClerkoftheBoard <[email protected]>
Date Sent: Monday, April 6, 2026 2:15:10 PM GMT-07:00
Date Received: Monday, April 6, 2026 2:15:29 PM GMT-07:00 Dear Oxnard-City, Council Members,
I am writing to express serious concern regarding a recent encampment cleanup notice issued by the Oxnard Police Department.
While I understand the need to address public health and safety, I am troubled by the impact of these actions on individuals who are disabled and may be physically unable to comply with a 48-hour notice to relocate.
A uniform enforcement approach in these situations raises concerns under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. It also raises constitutional concerns reflected in Martin v. City of Boise, particularly where individuals have no viable shelter or realistic alternative.
I would also like to raise a broader question regarding the practical fairness of these enforcement actions:
How is a reasonable person expected to respond to a citation or comply with a notice when they may lack the physical ability to do so due to disability, and do not have access to legal assistance or support? In such cases, compliance may not be a matter of willingness, but of actual capacity. This raises serious concerns about accessibility, due process, and whether current procedures are realistically achievable for those affected.
Given these concerns, I respectfully ask:
What procedures are in place to identify and assist disabled individuals during encampment cleanups? Are reasonable accommodations consistently provided, including additional time or physical assistance when needed?
What safeguards exist to prevent the loss of essential personal property, including medical equipment? How does the City ensure that enforcement actions are not only lawful in theory, but fair and achievable in practice?
I urge the City to review its current practices to ensure they are humane, lawful, and inclusive of the most vulnerable members of the community.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Eugenia Granados
April 02, 2026 given while I was a bystander
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Subject: Public Comment: Item N2
From: Heather Schmidt < >
To: City Clerk <[email protected]>
Date Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:54:49 PM GMT-07:00
Date Received: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:55:03 PM GMT-07:00 Good afternoon Mayor, Council -
I apologize for the lateness in my email, I have been swamped with professional projects that prohibited me from sending this before now. That said, I am emailing you today to voice my opposition to the dissolution of the homelessness CAG at tonight's City Council meeting.
I wanted to share a personal story of a friend who has fallen to homelessness. She continues to wait for the city housing department to help her access safe and affordable housing today. She lives completely on disability, for a debilitating autoimmune disorder, and while in the hospital last year was evicted unlawfully by her roommate without cause. People told her to sue, to which we wondered: with what money should she do that? Every penny she receives in her disability check each month is directed to surviving one more day. She has since gone from place to place, shelter to shelter, hospital to hospital. At one point, she was hospital-dumped in a home here in East Village - near to where my family and I live. We thought this was great, she would be close and we could help her more. Within days, she awoke to her entire body covered in bed bug bites. 15 women occupy this home, paying $800 a piece. It is unlicensed to be this kind of a facility. Women that work at night engaging in illegal activities to just cover their rent sleep on chairs in the living room during the day. OPD has visited the home at least once for an aggravated assault. The home continues to operate, as is. I instructed her to email Councilmember Starr since the home is in his district, to try and access resources. Those he sent were of little help. She is now in a motel, after being hospitalized for weeks due to an infection caused by those bug bites, and fighting for her life.
Homeless people are more than just mentally ill vagrants and drug addicts. And I have to ask: if you became homeless, wouldn't all of you struggle mentally? We like to all look down on the homeless as though their reality is not one we all could one day face. 60% of our homeless have at least a part time job. They are mothers, children, the elderly. The point in time count is a great resource to gather some data relative to homelessness, but it does not express the full reality of what continues today.
The City improvements are only a part of the picture.
We have many people living in our storm drains, homeless students living in cars, and countless individuals living 10-12 in homes that are unsafe and charge by the bed. OPD still responds to an average of 25 calls per day for homeless individuals in need of some kind of support, as of last month.
Addressing homelessness is more than just figuring out ways to get roofs over people's heads. It's developing recommendations to help the middle class stay housed. It's offering support to OPD, public health, and housing department efforts in the community. It's seeking strategies to provide safe and stable rentals for all of Oxnard's residents. It's finding ways to invest in programming that helps our youth. It's identifying key stakeholders in the community that can act as partners in solutions. How else can our community harness all the potential solutions without keeping every avenue possible open to identify these remedies? Respectfully, what City staff is out doing in the community is insufficient. You can't just go talk to homeless people to fix the problem; you must actively seek ways to prevent it. The Assistant City Manager's plea to end the homelessness CAG at the city committee meeting some weeks ago was a shocking display of contempt for public participation in finding solutions.
We should be giving every person willing to be a part of the solution every avenue possible to do so; meet the people where they are. In truth, it seems that the City simply doesn't want to deal with it anymore; wants to cherry pick the data and call it a day.
When City staff says there is no money to fund all of these different committees and meetings and staff time to build agenda packets, my only remaining thought is: find it.
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Respectfully -
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Heather Schmidt, MPA, CySA, CDA
Public Policy Advisor
Heather Christena Schmidt Community Consulting
Call or Text 8
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Subject: Fwd: April 7, 2026 City Council Agenda Item N-1 - Process to Rename Cesar Chavez Drive From: "Lopez, Luly" <[email protected]>
To: Dee Lai <[email protected]>
Date Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:17:08 PM GMT-07:00
Date Received: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:17:22 PM GMT-07:00 Attachments: Macri-Ortiz 2 Mayor McArthur re Agenda Item N-1 (04.07.2026).pdf ---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: <b >
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Subject: April 7, 2026 City Council Agenda Item N-1 - Process to Rename Cesar Chavez Drive To: Luis McArthur <[email protected]>, Gabe Teran <[email protected]>, Bert Perello <[email protected]>, Gabriela Basua <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Cc: Lopez, Luly <[email protected]>, Alex Nguyen <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Dear Madam City Clerk,
I will bring the original letter tonight to enter into the official record of the proceedings. Please ensure that each of the Council members receives a copy of my communication and email transmittal. Thank you!
Dear Mayor McArthur and Council Members Teran, Perello, Basua, Perez, Starr and Rodriguez,
Attached is my letter regarding Item N-1, the renaming of Cesar Chavez Drive. I realize that the letter may be a few pages longer than you might expect or want to read, and I apologize for not getting it to you earlier. But I am personally very close to this issue and have first taken the time to think this question through in my own mind. I have given serious thought to the subject matter, including the ramifications and unintended consequences of the staff’s recommendation to proceed to rename Cesar Chavez Drive without the need for the inhabitant or occupant petition, as is required pursuant to City Council Resolution.
I urge you NOT to proceed with the proposed process to rename Cesar Chavez Drive at this time for the reasons stated in my letter. The underlying issue is really not about renaming a street. If you want to do anything, you must start by figuring out a way to address the underlying problem, a problem that is imbedded in our culture. The recent story in the NYT may highlight the moral failures of one man who has been dead for 33 years, but the proposed solution does nothing to really address the problem. If you want to do something meaningful, please propose something worthwhile that will improve our community culture going forward. That is my challenge to you.
Thank you for your consideration,
Barbara
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