Recent Stories of Criminalization of Homeless Persons in the OC include: Note: Criminalization of homelessness has been going on for a while in the OC - see for example, this 2012 article by Amber Stephens in the Daily Titan, Cal State Fullerton student newspaper -
https://dailytitan.com/2012/04/whats-left-criminalizing-societys-homeless/ - but the stories listed below are only 2018 onwards. Generally, homeless people are criminalized by anti-vagrancy and anti-camping municipal ordinances, but recently cities in the OC have also added laws that make it unlawful to give food to homeless people. To learn more about how people are criminalized, you can read Sarma and Brand (2018)
https://theappeal.org/the-criminalization-of-homelessness-an-explainer-aa074d25688d/ and watch Prof. Jacob Avery's Vicious Circle video (15 mins long, 2019) to understand how homelessness and homeless people are criminalized -
https://youtu.be/nqqcyjKeiz8?t=759Jan. 25, 2018. Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil. Anti-homeless laws crop up in Santa Ana in Line with a Statewide Trend, California Health Report. Available online:
http://www.calhealthreport.org/2018/01/25/anti-homeless-laws-crop-santa-ana-line-statewide-trend/Last accessed: May 13, 2019.
April 3, 2018. Spencer Custodio. Moving started for Santa Ana's Civic Center Homeless, Voice of OC. Available online:
https://voiceofoc.org/2018/04/moving-started-for-santa-ana-civic-centers-homeless/Last accessed: May 13, 2019.
Sept. 5, 2018. Norberto Santa Ana, Jr. OC Lack of Progress on Homelessness is Tragic. Could it Soon be Illegal? Available online:
https://voiceofoc.org/2018/09/santana-oc-lack-of-progress-on-homelessness-is-tragic-could-it-soon-be-illegal/Last accessed: May 13, 2019.