A Portland-based nonprofit claims the city’s ordinances discriminate against people with disabilities and violate state law.

A small Oregon city is facing a fresh lawsuit over its homeless camping rules. Disability Rights Oregon sued Grants Pass on Thursday.

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 they say put people with disabilities and others in peril.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s City of Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling last June allowing localities to ban outdoor camping even if there is no homeless shelter space available, roughly 150 cities in 32 states have passed or strengthened such ordinances.

The lawsuit filed on Thursday alleges Grants Pass ordinances on homeless encampments violate Oregon laws, including discrimination protections for people with a disability.

Just months after receiving national attention as the plaintiff of a Supreme Court case over its homeless policies, the small southern Oregon city of Grants Pass is now accused of forcing hundreds of homeless people into one small campsite.

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.

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.

Oregon’s cities will push the state Legislature to give them more money for roads, water and sewers, more power to remove homeless camps and more flexibility to spend hotel tax revenue on basic services.

GRANTS PASS, Ore.- Hundreds of people pack into a town hall hosted by the Josephine County Board of Commissioners to discuss ODF’s new Wildfire hazard map. Earlier this month, some county residents received notices from ODF,

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 teenage boys are in juvenile detention on multiple felony charges — including kidnapping — after Grants Pass Police detectives and patrol officers served a search warrant Thursday in the northwest part of the city.