Winter Park Police try to help homeless one person at a time

A new unit aims to connect people who are living on the streets with organizations that can provide new IDs, food, health care and other resources

Winter Park Police officers Kyle Liquori and Rick Thomas made their way on foot on a recent afternoon to a weed-infested alcove tucked under the Rev. Kenneth C. Crossman railway bridge over U.S. 17-92.

The officers found what they were looking for just out of plain sight from drivers whizzing along the busy stretch near the border between Winter Park and Maitland an overturned shopping cart surrounded by empty tuna cans, batteries, plastic plates, a dirty blanket and a weathered library book amid a pile of trash and abandoned belongings…

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