Restraining order request could halt effort to clear O.C. homeless camp

Orange County sheriff’s deputies ramped up their efforts to clear the county’s largest homeless encampment, the Santa Ana River tent city, by arresting 17 people there on Thursday, Feb. 1 – the same number as the previous 10 days combined.
Meanwhile, as of Friday afternoon, attorney Brooke Weitzman, who filed a federal lawsuit this week on behalf of seven homeless people to block the county’s actions on the riverbed, has asked a federal judge to momentarily stop the count