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South Pasadena police outline HOPE outreach, county mental‑health partnership and local trends in homelessness
Summary
Police and county mental‑health staff described daily HOPE outreach, MET‑team coordination and rising daytime incidents; the presentation listed local resource partners and gave demographic and service statistics for the unhoused population.
South Pasadena police told the Public Safety Commission their HOPE homeless outreach team, county mental‑health partners and regional teams address a small but visible unhoused population in the city, with most contacts involving mental‑health issues and substance use.
Lieutenant Shannon Robledo of the South Pasadena Police Department described the department’s HOPE (Homeless Outreach) team and said the city’s point‑in‑time estimate is about 14 people sleeping in the city on a typical night, rising to roughly 25–30 people during the day. “The other ones are transients that are coming to our city, using our public facilities,” Robledo said.
Robledo gave demographic and service figures: she said roughly 85 percent of the unhoused population identified in the city…
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