Disability Rights Oregon and the Oregon Law Center filed an emergency lawsuit against the City of Grants Pass this morning, saying the city's recent closure of two homeless encampments is putting unhoused people with disabilities at risk.

The non-profit group Disability Rights Oregon and five disabled homeless residents have sued the city of Grants Pass claiming new camping restrictions violate state laws.

Disability Rights Oregon along with the Oregon Law Center filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday against Grants Pass, attempting to stop the city from closing the J Street resting site. According to a joint press release from the two organizations,

Two advocacy groups and five homeless people sued Grants Pass on Thursday in a bid to force the southern Oregon city to change its restrictions on homeless camping that put people with disabilities and others in peril.

On Friday morning, homeless residents dragged tarps and carried piles on their backs, heaping their belongings just outside the fence. They were given until 9 a.m. to get their possessions off the city-owned site.

With overnight temperatures forecasted to hold out above freezing in Grants Pass this weekend, one of the few resources available to the unhoused may have to close its doors overnight. The Mobile Integrative Navigation Team or MINT severe weather shelter has seen a significant increase in the number of people passing

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The school district says Grants Pass High School reached a 93.9% four-year graduation rate -- which is significantly more than Oregon's average of 81.8%. At the district level, the 4-year graduation rate was 79.4%, which was "the highest on record, with a 4-year completer rate of 88.4%."

Oregon's congressional delegation as well as other lawmakers in the region, reacted to the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants and loans.

Two law firms, Disability Rights Oregon and Oregon Law Center, say the city of Grants Pass is forcing unhoused residents to live in life-threatening conditions.

The City Council ordered one of the only two sites for legal camping closed in the middle of January, in the middle of bitterly cold weather, without any regard for where people would live,” the suit says.