Senior Citizens, single parent families with children, or two parent families living on limited incomes have been forced from their homes by illegal threats of prosecution, fines and jail. Illegal search warrants, issued on falsely sworn affidavits by UG employees, have been quashed revoked by District and Appellate Court judges. A disproportionate number of these illegal procedures have been carried out against Black citizens and other minorities. It seems impossible that such oppressive procedures could continue for years in an American city, but Marinovich s government simply refuses to follow previous court rulings ordering Code Enforcement inspectors to stop abusing citizen rights. In defiance of the law, Code Enforcement inspectors illegally threaten homeowners with immediate fines they claim they have the power to impose without judicial intervention.
Inspectors illegally threaten to jail homeowners immediately.
They evict families from their homes on 24 hours notice without the right to a court hearing. In some instances, Code Enforcement inspectors pull a bait and switch on owners of code deficient residences. After terrifying homeowners with threats of fines, jail and turning their children over to SRS, they turn nice guy and offer a deal. These deeds are not recorded with the Register of Deeds. They re kept in secret City Hall files.