Even before Gavin Newsom’s statewide order to clear camps, Modesto’s homeless people were saying Stanislaus County Sheriffs had already started arresting people with no place to go. Whether that’s the case or not, jail time for homeless people is the expected outcome after the Supreme Court ruling on Grants Pass vs Johnson on June 28. Essentially overturning the 2018 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that people could not be denied sleeping in public if there were no other place to go, the nation’s Supreme Court has ruled sweeps and rousts of homeless people are legal and up to the discretion of cities and counties, regardless of whether or not alternative shelter is available.