The State - News from Sept. 6, 1988

An Orange County judge has ordered the city of Santa Ana to stop throwing away the bedrolls and other belongings that homeless people stash on public property. The 20-day restraining order, sought by the ACLU, says city maintenance crews must take any belongings bearing the owner’s name to the Police Department’s lost and found. Superior Court Commissioner Ronald L. Bauer said the city’s policy of discarding belongings found in bushes “seems like the kind of irreparable harm that the court should address.”