Federal judge blocks Vallejo from destroying woman’s tent shelter

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Federal judge blocks Vallejo from destroying woman’s tent shelter

VALLEJO - A federal judge upheld a Vallejo woman’s petition to stay in her tent shelter last week, blocking the city’s efforts to destroy her camp while she searches for permanent housing.Evelyn Alfred, known to friends as Brown Sugar, has for months been fighting the city’s efforts to remove her from a vacant lot alongside Mare Island Way near Tennessee Street. Alfred, 64, said she has the right to inhabit a small structure constructed out of t…