Photo gallery: Huntington Beach Homeless Task Force

Officer Gabe Ricci with the Huntington Beach Homeless Task Force finds his way into a homeless encampement tucked into the woods near Sully Miller Lake in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, September 19.  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot )

Officer Gabe Ricci with the Huntington Beach Homeless Task Force, left, and Officer Daniel Chichester make contact with Rigoberto Espinosa, right, at a homeless encampement off of Ellis Ave in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, September 19.  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot )

Officer Gabe Ricci with the Huntington Beach Homeless Task Force, left, and Officer Daniel Chichester talk with several homeless people near an encampement off of Ellis Ave in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, September 19.  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot )

Debris is scattered around a homelees encampement near Sully Miller Lake off of Ellis Ave in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, September 19.  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot )

Officer Daniel Chichester lets Yesenia Newell, 30, talk with an acquantence on the phone on Wednesday, September 19.  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot )