Santa Ana officials this week registered a second lawsuit related to homelessness and its impacts on residents and police services in town.
The city litigated the Mental Health Association of Orange County, which operates a public drop-in center in Santa Ana for homeless person with mental illness or other disorders.
Santa Ana, the lawsuit states,” brings this action to protect the health, refuge, and welfare of its citizens .”
The lawsuit, in Orange County Superior Court, is one of two filed by the city on Monday, January 13. The other one, filed under federal court in Santa Ana, is against Orange County and the cities of Dana Point, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. In the federal dispute, Santa Ana argues that it is being made by the county and the cities to take in and add shelter for the purposes of an unjust share of homeless individuals, impacting Santa Ana residents and emergency services. The metropoli accuses the county and the three South County cities of propagandize their homeless into Santa Ana, an allegation that Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do announced ” political grandstanding .”
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In the lawsuit against the non-profit Mental Health Association, Santa Ana asks special courts to declare the Homeless Multi-Service Center at 2416 South Main Street a public inconvenience, seeking to at least temporarily- if not permanently- shut it down.
Orange County has a contract with the association to run the center. County officials refused Wednesday to comment on the litigation.
During a 19 -month period that culminated in early January of last year, Santa Ana police refuted at least 249 entitles linked to the center. These included reports of assault, assault, struggled suicide, family violence, disorderly conduct, theft and indecent exposure. The requests represent” a disproportionate sum of era policing, patrolling, and responding to calls” at a middle where employees” often refuse ” police requests for further information or succour, according to the lawsuit. Meanwhile, in an 18 -month window that purposed earlier this month, district volley officials have responded to the center some 73 times.
” The City of Santa Ana has limited police and emergency sources. Those limited resources available have been inordinately taxed by the nuisance status at the MHA facility ,” the lawsuit states.
The county-funded facility too represents a nuisance to nearby businesses and neighbours, who complain about it” on a daily basis ,” according to the lawsuit. The municipal also alleges that the center is not in compliance with the city’s zoning code.
The Homeless Multi-Service Center is open from 6 a.m. to 3 p. m. every day, all year long, according to its website. Assistance include counseling, substance abuse prevention and education, a lamp breakfast, snacks and red-hot lunches, access to showers and laundry assistances, neighbourhood telephone calls, clothing, bus vouchers, a target receive forward and and referrals to mental health services.
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