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Gary Johnson

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Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:2010s
State:California
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Gary Johnson

Biography

Gary Johnson was a homeless rights activist who in 2010 slept on the steps outside Santa Cruz City Hall in protest of a recent law targeting the homeless that made it a crime to sleep outside or in a vehicle. Johnson was arrested for this and held on $50,000 bail, he was convicted and sentenced to 6 months in jail.

2010s audit verified October 12, 2026: The contemporary PeaceCamp2010 court report, whose original HTML was retained and read, reports Johnson sentenced to six months and taken to jail June 10, 2011. The unsupported West Tennessee institution was removed from this Santa Cruz case. His individual bail-release date remains unresolved; later prosecutions are not merged with this interval.

Case

Charges: Illegal lodging — California Penal Code section 647(e)
Sentenced: Jun 10, 2011
Incarcerated: Jun 10, 2011
Sentence: Six-month sentence for the PeaceCamp2010 sleeping protest; jailed in June 2011 before bail pending appeal. Later prosecutions and confinement in 2012 are separate; their endpoints are not merged into this interval.
Judge: John Gallagher