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CITY OF DESERT HOT SPRINGS

ADMINISTRATIVE CITATION DEFENSE GUIDE - MAIN

This is a quick and dirty overview on how to contest your Desert Hot Springs administrative citation.

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2024 Desert Hot Springs Lawsuit List

A new sign has been erected at the entry to the City of Desert Hot Springs, it reads...
"Whatever you do, do yourself a favor, never move to the City of Desert Hot Springs. If you are looking for a new town to live in, look elsewhere."

The City of Desert Hot Springs was (is) a broke dying city. The city management failed to properly manage income and expenses. No one admits to the decisions it has made. In 2010 it instigated a major land grab and took over 4,000 acres of land managed by the county. The goal was to force the new "citizens" of Desert Hot Springs to pay the 12 million dollar debt the City had incurred. Wikipedia has been scrubbed of all the bad tormented history of Desert Hot Springs. Some of the bankruptcy history and lawsuits are still available in the links at the bottom of the Desert Hot Springs wikipedia page. Desert Hot Springs is POLICING FOR PROFIT. It must be stopped. See examples of notics and citations POLICING_FOR_PROFIT. The City issues notices to 10% of its poor citizens per year! Here is just 1/2 month of notices and citations. The City issues THREE HUNDRED home tickets a month to the poor people of Desert Hot Springs while the City Manger who implemented this program makes THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR! $300,000! Per capita EVERY citizen in Desert Hot Springs is in low income levels of Riverside County. https://harivco.org/income-limits

The Desert Hot Springs City council has turned against its own citizens. The same people have been on this council for years. In about 2016 Desert Hot Springs found that it could "tax" its citizens using "administrative citations." The city began its code enforcement division. Since then it has escalated enforcement by adding to its "public nuisance" list of violations. Realistically, just about anything can fit into these nuisance laws. Because of that Desert Hot Springs code compliance officers can fine you for just about anything. And they do - a low tire in your own driveway, working on your car on your own property, parking your boat or your recreational vehicle, weeds, your fence, a cracked window glass, and some much more.

The whole scheme is a racket to make money. A group of concerned citizens plan to file a class action lawsuit against the City and every code enforcement officer who has participated in the racket. If you have been wrongly cited for frivolous nothings we urge you to join our simple mail list of Concerned Citizens of Desert Hot Springs to completely eliminate code enforcement in the City of Desert Hot Springs, California. When we have the number of people needed we will file a class action lawsuit against the city. If you belive you have been unreasonably given an administrative citation please join. Join here. Its time to file a class action lawsuit against the city and its policing for profit city attorneys and city management.

Is this crazy, stupid, or evil or all of the above? 4.16.010 Unlawful acts—Public nuisances. #A.1.a - you can be cited for a scratched toaster oven. In the desert you can be cited for "unacceptable landscaping" #A.2. Or how about weeds? A.3 permits the code officer to cite you for weeds - when the 32 square miles of this town contains weeds on every square inch. Or being cited for working outside in the driveway on your car and being cited because it is not in a garage! - when 80% of the homes do not have garages. Or perhaps it is a "public nuisance" to store your garbage cans in your front yard - #A.14. How about 45.D? - Every owner, occupant, lessee or holder of any possessor interest of real property within the City is required to maintain such property so as not to violate the provisions of this chapter! The City of Desert Hot Springs has gone way too far harming its own citizens with these laughable public nuisance declarations. Its time to fight back and lose this code. This law could not be more vague or abusive.

People do not understand we have all been boiled like frogs. Little by little by little the administrative state has gained power. The California League of Cities which is a California nonprofit dreams up new ways to screw you over. Cities are no longer for the citizens, everything they do is for the city - claiming it's for the citizens.

We are sorry to hear you live in the city of Desert Hot Springs California. This is very similar to homeowner association law. Its 50,000 homeowner associations with all the money against you. Here we have 482 cities and 58 counties against you. The attorneys and organizations influence the government to make laws that are good for them, and bad for you. You are losing your god given rights.

This website is for people who are issued administrative citations in the city of Desert Hot Springs California. This city has decided to prey on its poor citizens. It now issues what are called administrative citations. You can be given a citation for Christmas lights, firewood, a low front tire on your car, owning firewood, a weed in your front yard, or a cracked window on your home.

Code enforcement officers drive around the small city of Desert Hot Springs California Monday through Thursday issuing fines for innocent things people have done for millennia. Nothing will piss you off more than a creepy little code enforcement officer issuing a citation for a weed in the crack of your driveway or your kid's barbie corvette on the driveway.

Whatever you do, if you are looking for a new town to live in, look elsewhere. This is now a town of petty harassers who abuse new laws in California to issue citations that support paying its City manager a whopping $300,000 per year for a town of just 30,000 with 30% in poverty. This is a town of petty harassers who abuse new laws in California to issue citations.

INFORMATION FOR ATTORNEYS AND PROPERS

In about 1994 the city of San Jose California sponsored a bill in the legislature to create the creature known as an administrative citation. Senate Bill 814 introduced government code 53069.4. This statute gives local entities the authority to create law, enforce law, fine citizens, and collect all the money. This was supposed to be a simple solution to minor violations such as a garbage can in the street.

Attorney Joan Gallo, bless her little heart, trumpeted this new technique to the league of California cities making it known throughout the state. Three decades later cities have taken this ability and twisted it to mean they can do whatever they want with you. And then they can give you a whopping fine.

The problem for citizens is that no one is watching the city's. Yes, they can make law, and they can enforce the law they make. However they have forgotten to make any law whatsoever that assists in any way a citizen to put up a defense. Isn't that interesting.

The legislature, probably knowing that cities would take advantage of their newfound power, gave the person who had been cited the right to challenge the administrative hearing officer's finding and reclassify then move the entire case to civil court limited civil jurisdiction.

You will have a better chance of winning if you move the case to limited civil jurisdiction, after you have your administrative hearing.

You will be caught off guard. They make these laws for a purpose - to make it hard to oppose them.

When you get first notice or citation IMMEDIATELY start your research. SAVE every envelope, every piece of paper.

You must pay fine or get fine waiver. If you decide to fight, and you should, you will need to APPEAL to a hearing officer.

There is no more fine if you APPEAL to a hearing officer (NO ZOOM HEARINGS) than if you just pay the citation.

If everyone forces the City to pay for hearing officers then they may end this evil practice. You can not submit new evidence at a zoom hearing.

To be continued.... See informative site www.administrativecitation.com