After blocking Orange County’s plans to open a cold-weather shelter in Downtown Santa Ana earlier this month, the federal court judge presiding over the dispute allowed the county to open the shelter in a different location in the city at an Oct. 21 hearing.
“It’s just inhumane to have people sit in the rain,” U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said during the hearing. “I can’t let people sleep out in the rain because of a squabble between the county and city.”
