Orange County leaders say they found a significant drop in the number of homeless residents as they searched the streets earlier this year, but there’s one place nobody checked – the county jails.
A Voice of OC review found that the county’s incarceration rate of homeless residents has gone up over 40% since 2022 amid a series of shifts in state and local laws that make it easier for police departments to imprison homeless residents.
That’s opened questions on how much the county has actually done to improve homelessness as they claim they can’t answer how the drop in homelessness came…