The Fremont City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a controversial homeless camping ban. Along with preventing camping anywhere in public, the measure would punish people who help the homeless. If approved,

Fremont’s plan to ban homeless camps anywhere in the city has the potential to be the most forceful response yet in the Bay Area to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer granting officials broad authority to police homelessness — and could have ripple effects across the region.