Long Beach has continued to crack down on street vendors who lack permits since it began enforcing its new rules earlier this year, according to recent data from the city’s Health Department.
Numbers released on Sept. 15 showed city staff seized food from unpermitted vendors 41 times this year and impounded their equipment 39 times. That’s up from just 18 times as of early May.
Since the start of the year, the city has also issued 161 cease-and-desist letters and written 74 administrative citations to unpermitted vendors, the data shows.
The continued enforcement contrasts with the County of Los Angeles, which announced last week that it was temporarily halting penalties on unpermitted street vending because of recent federal immigration operations throughout Southern California…