Local News in Brief : Santa Ana : Union Seeks County Action on Vagrancy
The Orange County Employees Assn., the largest union for county workers, complained to the Board of Supervisors on Monday that vagrants and homeless people loitering in the Civic Center are presenting an “intolerable condition.”
“Escalating and persistent complaints from the employees of bad language, insults, sleeping bags in county building entry ways and bushes around the buildings, human waste and the improper use of county restrooms by the vagrants can no longer be ignored by county management,” the union’s general manager, John H. Sawyer, wrote the board.
“County employees have too long suffered under these offensive working conditions, and OCEA requests and expects county management to correct this condition promptly,” the letter said.
The brief letter did not offer any suggestions about how the county might resolve the difficulties caused by homeless people in the area. Sawyer was unavailable for comment Monday afternoon.
OCEA represents about 6,500 of the county’s 14,000 employees.
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