Orange County to hire private guards to help enforce riverbed curfew that displaced homeless

A homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River in Fountain Valley, California, on Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Orange County will hire private, unarmed guards to help impose its newly enforced curfew that has displaced homeless people living along long stretches of the Santa Ana River, paying a security firm nearly a half-million dollars annually for those services and other activities.