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Advocate urges Oxnard to address encampments, cites hotel overdoses and counts of RVs
Summary
At the Dec. 17 Oxnard City Council meeting, homelessness advocate Lane Martinez described outreach work with police, said people were overdosing in hotel programs and said encampments persist around Ormond Beach, urging further action.
Lane Martinez, a homelessness advocate, told the Oxnard City Council on Dec. 17 that local outreach and encampment-removal efforts have not solved the city’s homelessness problems and that people have died while sheltered in hotel programs.
Martinez said he has worked with law enforcement on encampment removals and described media coverage of overdoses in hotel programs. “When they were putting when room key came on board, they were dying in the hotels of overdoses,”…
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