Correspondence - Closed Session #3C

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The county has indicated that they do not keep information as it relates to transportation of homeless individuals as they indicated on page 18 of Doc 50 of the case: 2011 67. On August 17. 2020. the County produced service logs for the period 21 22 23 24 04111 26 27 28 front July 24. 2019 to July 8, 2020, which reflected nearly 300 encounters with individuals experiencing homelessness, many of whore were arrested and taken to the Intake Release Center on Santa Ana, including for minor offenses (such as public ruination) that simply reflect the reality of experiencing homelessness. 68. Notably, the OCSD-s August 17. 2020 correspondence indicated unequivocally: "The Orange County's Sheriff's Department does not keep statistics related to the transportation ofhomeless individuals.' The OCSD's -Is- OF SAN7A ANA Case 8:4-cv 00069-DOC-KES Document 50 F41ed OWIJ20 Page f9 of 37 Page ID at365 1 failure to track the number of homeless individuals it has transported is apparently 2 intentional It has now made it impossible for the County. the OCCW Plaintiffs. 3 thud -party beneficiaries of the OCCW Settlement Agreement (like Santa Ana). the 4 public, or any other interested parties to monitor the OCSD's compliance with the 5 OCCW Settlement Agreement's prohibition on the transporting of homeless 6 individuals across SPA borders. The failure to track this important information 7 makes it possible for the County to violate the Settlement Agreement and to escape 8 attention and accountability. However, the county previously provided to me information that appears it does track in their system information regarding transportation of homeless individuals. See attached email titled "RE: Public Information Request- OCSD Transport to Santa Ana". This information clearly shows that OCSD is not only tracking this information but has provided transportation to those seeking shelter across SPA lines after the Catholic Worker settlement where the county agreed to stop such action. If you have not received similar information in your queries, they are obviously withholding information or the right information is not being requested. Further, please know that the county and other South County cities continue to distribute collateral material providing information to those who are unhoused within their own jurisdictions indicating shelter locations here in Santa Ana. Despite some of these shelters no longer being in operation. Please find attached information titled "Correspondence- 3.3.20 Closed Session". This is old information but as relevant today as it was back in March of 2020. This file also contains condensed information regarding the transportations across SPA lines. Further, please know that the County continues to utilize OCSD to transport individuals for minor legal offenses, which are still violations so they should be handled, to their Intake Release Center (IRC) here in Santa Ana. They are often processed and then released... often late into the evening (i.e. 10pm, 11pm, etc...). These individuals then are pretty much forced to spend the night in Santa Ana unless they are able to secure safe transportation back to their city of violation. Further, these individuals' belongings are often not maintained at the IRC but instead off -site with not the same hours of operations as their release from processing at IRC. This further increases the odds of an individual being unhoused on the streets of Santa Ana. I urge you to continue to request that the county utilize its facility located in the South SPA (Musick) for releasing of individuals who are arrested in South county to increase the likelihood that they will return to the area that they are familiar with and have ties to instead of increasing the likelihood of them spending countless nights on the streets of Santa Ana.