LOS ANGELES—Responding to a broadcast report, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) said on May 24 that its employees throw uneaten food in dumpsters “to protect the health and safety of the people they serve.”
CBSLA said Monday its investigative team monitored LAHSA teams for months as they were tasked with picking up food and bringing it to people on the street. While many outreach workers were seen folding up empty boxes that previously held food—which the station presumed had been after all the food was distributed—another team allegedly drove around and stopped at Target, Starbucks, and McDonald’s without stopping to hand out food to unhoused people along the way.
