The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved Aug. 23 responses to four grand jury reports.
Supervisors agreed unanimously with three of the four final responses while Supervisor Katrina Foley said she will send in her own response to one report.
The four grand jury reports released in June respectively examined the county’s homelessness, the Orange County Power Authority, the Office of Independent Review, and increasing recycling centers for people to exchange bottles and cans for money.
How is Orange County Addressing Homelessness?
Among several other issues, this report (pdf) asserted that the county lacks “low-threshold emergency shelters,” or shelters without “excessive” requirements, such as monitoring drug intake, requiring rehabilitating programs, or restricting freedoms for homeless individuals to come and go as they please….