Homeless people sleeping in the Santa Ana riverbed in Orange County won another legal challenge on Friday — for the second time this month. A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order that requires Orange County to take extra measures to protect homeless people’s belongings.
The judge’s order requires the county to give people 24 hours notice that they need to move their property before seizing it.
The county must also allow people to retrieve their property anytime during regular business hours. Previously, the Lake Forest maintenance yard where seized property was stored — which is 20 miles away from the main homeless encampment in the riverbed — was open by appointment only, one day a week for one hour, the lawsuit alleged.
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