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US American charity for unhoused people

Scean’s Outpost, Inc is a US non-profit organization that provides services for unhoused people in Pensacola, FL. ^[1][2]

History

In March 2013, Jason King started Sean’s Outpost to provide meals to the unhoused residents in Pensacola, FL, starting with about 50 meals once per week, to replace the community’s need following the loss of funding to another charity in the city. ^[3][4]. To date, Sean’s Outpost has served hundreds of thousands of meals. ^[5][2][6]

The namesake of Sean’s Outpost is Sean Dugas, King’s best friend, who was murdered in September 2012. ^{[3][7][8][9][4]}

Satoshi Forest

In 2013, Sean’s Outpost opened a 9-acre Homeless shelter in Pensacola, Florida. ^[10]

In March 2014, Escambia County attempted to shut down Satoshi Forest, claiming that the tents required building permits. The charges were dropped the following month. The attorney for Scean’s Outpost said that the county was not legal, and that they were intentionally targeting resources for the local unhoused population.

We argued that the county was simply objecting to the use of the property for homeless persons and that there was no provision in the code that required you to get permission to have someone spend the night on your property.

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In 2015, Escambia County denied Satoshi Forest a permit to allow free camping on their privately-owned property, claiming that Satoshi Forest didn’t meet regulations requiring an “all-weather road for the maintenance of the site’s portable toilets”. Sean’s Outpost appealed the decision, and the decision was overturned by a judge in 2017, stating that the county’s objections cited falsified regulations.

TODO: add more info about Satoshi Forest and its legal troubles ^{[11][12][13][5][14][15][16]}

TODO: follow-up of superfund site health troubles in 2024 https://prismreports.org/2024/09/17/encampment-on-superfund-site/

BITHOC

Sean’s Outpost operates the Bitcoin Homeless Outreach Center (BITHOC), which is a thrift shop, storage facility, food pantry ^[17]

Bitcoin Across America

TODO: write section about Jason King’s run across the US to raise money for Sean’s Outpost

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/bitcoin-run-jason-king/
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-across-america-jason-king/
https://www.businessinsider.com/a-killing-led-to-bitcoins-for-the-homeless-2014-2?op=1
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-across-america-ultra-marathon-180224626.html?guccounter=1
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/industry-events/constructive-reflections-bitcoin-beltway-1405821961

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