Score: +3
(4/2/1)
Nevada County Grand Jury
• 2024-2025
A Long and Winding Road for the Homeless of Nevada County
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Findings and Recommendations 8 findings
F1
The county has addressed nearly all of the agreed to recommendations from the 2019 report.
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R1
Local governments (cities, the county, and the BoS) should enact compre- hensive and coordinated anticamping laws; possibly consulting existing anti-camping laws in other counties and states.
F2
Homeless persons living in the WUI present a high risk of starting wildfires, en- dangering themselves, county residents, first responders, and property.
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R2
Local governments should develop one or more designated low barrier “sanctioned” camping areas for the homeless, with facilities and access to support services, similar to those established by other municipalities.
F3
Nevada County, with its rural nature, very high fire risk designation, and, in many cases, single evacuation routes, needs to be extra vigilant regarding fire prevention.
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R3
Local governments should extend the duration of trespass letters ob- tained from private property owners to one-year or longer to enable law enforcement personnel to quickly remove encampments from private property.
F4
Homelessness continues to increase in the County.
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R4
Local governments should provide additional shelter beds to close the gap between the number of unhoused people and the number of shelter beds.
F5
Nevada County has substantially fewer shelter beds available than the PIT home- less count.
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R5
Local governments should prioritize removing the homeless from the WUI.
F6
Law enforcement agencies often find it frustrating when dealing with the unhoused population, and lack tools to remove homeless from fire-prone areas in WUI.
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R6
Local governments should expand the criteria currently used to deter- mine warming shelter hours to be more realistic and better address the exposure risk that home- less face in colder months.
F7
Law enforcement agencies have difficulties removing homeless camps from private property.
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R7
The County should update the 2018 Ten-Year Plan to address this re- port’s findings and recommendations.
F8
While Grass Valley, Nevada City, and Truckee have adopted anti-camping laws, the County lacks a comprehensive anti-camping law.
No recommendations for this finding
Agency Responses 1
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No Responses Found 3
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