| california.
I have 2 questions. The second regards the california vehicle code. The first question probably doesn't, but it doesn't seem to fit any other category and partly pertains to autos.
1. I am forced to live in my car on the street due to various circumstances, such as high rent, discrimination in housing, etc. "Police" routinely bang on my car window and wake me up at 2 or 3 a.m., demand my ID, and say "it is illegal to live or sleep in your car". In each of the cities of Fremont and Hayward they tell me there is a municipal ordinance, and in other nearby cities they say there is an Alameda County ordinance against sleeping/living in the car. I tell them I am forced to live in the car. They say "It doesn't matter, surely there is a way out, and I don't want to hear your excuse". Each night they disrupt me they cost me about 4 hours of sleep. Moreover, I just had a heart attack 3 weeks ago and their disruption of my last night gave my heart many hours of trouble. The question is: Is it in fact illegal to live or sleep in one's car? And is there anything I can do about these "police"? They are ruining my life.
2. One night recently after I backed up on a residential street 7 carlengths and parallel parked by a curb a "policeman" cited me saying it is illegal to back up that far. When they sent me the "courtesy notice" they cite "CVC 22106". On the internet this is cited as follows:
22106. No person shall start a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked on a highway, nor shall any person back a vehicle on a highway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.
This seems to apply only to a highway, not to a residential street (whose speed limit is about 35 or 40 mph), right?
And since there was nobody around on the side of the street I was backing up on, and I was not going very fast, the movement could be made with safety. Each of these things means I did not violate the vehicle code cited, correct?
Blake Chapman  | 
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