[Volunteers helping homeless people take down their tents in a park, lifting an older man from his sleeping bag to a wheelchair outside his tent]
[Volunteers helping homeless people take down their tents in a park, including helping Laura Gutowski]
Laura Gutowski (interview): “I used to love camping. I didn’t mind roughing it. I, you know, I loved the outdoors. And now I can’t stand it anymore.”
[Homeless people standing in line to receive free food being distributed by volunteers]
Cassy Leach (interview): “The situation’s only escalating, and we’re seeing more and more people unhoused. And at the same time, we’re seeing more and more friction and frustration from community members on both sides.”
[Drone footage of Grants Pass]
[Drone footage of city park with tents]
[Homeless encampment in city park]
[Exterior of US Supreme Court]
[Homeless encampment in city park]
[U.S. Supreme Court justices posing for group photo]
Charley Willison (interview): “If these civil or criminal penalties can be enforced, it will likely go back to a status quo of cycles of incarceration, which also facilitates cycles of homelessness.”
[Exterior of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals]
[Tents set up next to busy street]
[California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking at a podium]
[Idaho flag hanging inside Idaho Capitol rotunda]
[Residents frustrated with public drug use in parks rallying with signs outside of City Hall]
Brock Spurgeon (interview): “Families are afraid to go to the parks. And it’s not just the campers or the homeless. It’s the drug use and the vandalism and the excessive littering. Needles on the ground, broken meth pipes on the ground. So no one wants to take their kids anymore.”
[Gospel Rescue Mission, the only overnight shelter for adults in Grants Pass]
Cassy Leach (interview): “So we’ve been paralyzed for the last few years waiting for the court case to be over, I guess. And so while we see the problem continually growing we’re not seeing resources being added to it.”
[Exterior of City Hall]
[Door to mayor’s office, mayor working in office]
[Drone footage of park and volunteers helping homeless people take down their tents]
Sara Bristol (interview): “Some people do think that the Supreme Court will overturn the decision, and then we can have our parks back. And to me, like, maybe then we can start policing the parks again, but we still have like 200 people who have to go somewhere. And so I just don’t really see how that resolves the issue.”
[Volunteer carrying box of belongings]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.