After a city review found multiple building and fire code violations, the council voted unanimously to close the motel that catered exclusively to Chinese women looking to give birth in the US.
Tag: City of Orange
Posted inOrange, Politics & Elections
Orange Sued for Allegedly Violating State Election Law
District elections could be implemented in Orange, following a voting rights lawsuit claiming the city’s current at-large election method disenfranchises the Latino electorate and hinders the election of Latino candidates.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Bradley: City of Orange Should Not Join the Xenophobic Bandwagon
Don Bradley, who lives in unincorporated Orange County adjacent to the City of Orange, writes that the Orange City Council didn’t need to jump into the national immigration debate on sanctuary cities – noting that city leaders should focus on grace rather than rage when it comes to undocumented people living and working in the United States.
Posted inAnaheim, CENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Government, Housing & Homelessness, NORTH COUNTY, Orange, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
Federal Judge to Consider Breaking Santa Ana Riverbed Evictions Into Segments
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter will decide at 8 a.m. Tuesday whether the county can immediately begin evicting all homeless people from the Santa Ana riverbed or, as the county requested over the weekend, let the evictions go forward in stages to address a bottleneck in booking motel rooms for the homeless people.
Posted inAnaheim, CENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Housing & Homelessness, NORTH COUNTY, Orange, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
Federal Judge Denies County’s Request to Modify Temporary Order Curbing Homeless Evictions
Federal Judge David O. Carter Friday denied Orange County’s request to modify his temporary restraining order halting the county’s eviction of homeless people on the Santa Ana Riverbed.
Posted inAnaheim, CENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Housing & Homelessness, NORTH COUNTY, Orange, Top Stories
Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Riverbed Homeless Evictions
Federal Judge David. O Carter halted the county’s Santa Ana riverbed homeless evictions late Tuesday night when he ordered the County of Orange and Anaheim, Orange and Costa Mesa to stop enforcing anti-camping and trespass laws along the riverbed.
Posted inAnaheim, CENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Government, Housing & Homelessness, NORTH COUNTY, Orange, Top Stories
Federal Judge Orders Hearing On Santa Ana Riverbed Homeless Evictions
U.S. District Judge David Carter ordered a federal court hearing Feb. 13 that could temporarily stop the county’s eviction of the homeless from the Santa Ana Riverbed after attorney Brooke Weitzman filed a lawsuit against the county and requested a temporary restraining order.
Posted inAnaheim, CENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Government, Housing & Homelessness, NORTH COUNTY, Orange, Top Stories
Lawsuit Seeks End to Santa Ana Riverbed Homeless Evictions; County Says It Won’t Stop
Attorney Brooke Weitzman Monday filed a federal court lawsuit in an effort to halt the county’s eviction of hundreds of homeless people from the Santa Ana riverbed, but the county immediately said it will continue telling people to leave unless a judge orders it to stop.
Posted inSanta Ana
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against DA in Gang Case
Court rules that the DA and the city of Orange violated the U.S. Constitution by enforcing a gang injunction on 50 county residents.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Orange, Top Stories, Transportation
OC to Get Less ‘Beds for Feds’ Cash
In exchange for allowing more inmates at the Theo Lacy jail, the city of Orange will receive about $340,000 more, paid from the county’s share of federal funds.
