Grants Pass police said the 7th Street site moved to only overnight camping on Jan. 21, allowing people to sleep there from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., while the other camp site at 755 SE J St. is closed.

Judge bars Grants Pass from taking enforcement action against homeless campers for 2 weeks Updated: Feb. 04, 2025, 1:32 p.m. | Published: Feb. 03, 2025, 12:56 p.m.

Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the City Council of Grants Pass, Oregon, voted unanimously to adopt a new camping resolution to help address homelessness.

It’s been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Grants Pass’ ban against homeless people camping in public. But in this Southern Oregon city, local officials still can’t clear all its ...

An Oregon judge has blocked the city at the heart of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on homelessness from enforcing its camping ban unless it meets certain conditions.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce outdoor sleeping bans has voted to prohibit camping but ...

Grants Pass is trying to create capacity for 150 tents — the amount Judge Sarah McGlaughlin estimated was previously available. Cubic said the city’s two existing campsites currently offer 99 ...

Tents set up at a homeless campsite near Grants Pass City Hall on March 25, 2025. Jane Vaughan / JPR Homeless people can’t be cited, arrested or fined for camping in Grants Pass, Oregon, for now.

The southern Oregon city made national headlines in 2024, when Grants Pass went to the U.S. Supreme Court to defend its restrictions on homeless people.

Grants Pass, a small city of about 40,000 along the Rogue River in the mountains of southern Oregon, has struggled for years to address the homelessness crisis and become emblematic of the ...