A bombshell report on Orange County temporary homeless shelters found dangerously unclean conditions, reports of abuse and disregard, lack of temperature control and threats from staff
A view of the exterior of the Courtyard Transitional Center in Santa Ana, one of the shelters mentioned in a new ACLU report. The Times was denied access to take photos in the facility.
An employee at one of the Santa Ana emergency homeless shelters found that bedbugs would crawl on you if you sat down long enough. In an email to The Times, the state attorney general’s office said it was “reviewing the contents of the report.” More temporary shelters are set to open in the coming months across Orange County, prompting the ACLU to release its report, Devanthery said.
A series of lawsuits have attempted to force solutions, including a lawsuit filed in February against five Orange County cities — Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Irvine, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano — and the county for failure to provide housing for homeless people.
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