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Police clear much of large homeless camp in Oceanside, offer motel vouchers ABC 10News and last updated 2021-04-13 20:24:49-04 OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KGTV) - With motel vouchers in hand, police in Oceanside cleared out most of a homeless camp along South Oceanside Boulevard. Early in the morning, rows of police recorded moving toward a large homeless encampment, 48 hours after the required notice was posted. Last week, the Oceanside City Council passed several measures, including a motel voucher program, offering up to 30 motel rooms for the homeless, up to three weeks at a time. If the voucher ...

OCEANSIDE —  The Oceanside City Council unanimously approved an emergency motel voucher program and an anti-camping ordinance Wednesday, both effective immediately and aimed at the tent communities growing along South Oceanside Boulevard and elsewhere. The two actions are designed to work together, staff members said. If the city can offer homeless individuals an available bed and support services, it can ticket them for “camping, sleeping, sitting, lying and storing personal property” in public places when they refuse to leave. Posting of the required 48-hour notices began at the cam...

OCEANSIDE —  Residents spoke out strongly this week against a suggestion that Oceanside close its aging Brooks Street pool and use the savings to operate its soon-to-open El Corazon Aquatics Center. “It really was hurtful and ... disrespectful ... to suggest closing the pool,” said Wayne Godinet of the Oceanside Samoan Cultural Committee at Wednesday’s Parks and Recreation Commission meeting. A lifelong Oceanside resident, he swam at Brooks Street as a child. For the record: 9:26 AM, Feb. 22, 2021An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the location of the El Corazon Aq...

Print North County civil rights groups are asking the Oceanside City Council to “revisit” last week’s appointment of real estate agent and drug-and-alcohol counselor Kori Jensen to the District 1 seat formerly held by Mayor Esther Sanchez. “A multitude of discrepancies and unanswered questions” about Jensen’s residency, background and experience in the district have left people wondering whether her appointment “was an error or intentional fraud,” states a news release jointly issued by the Oceanside Justice Coalition, the North San Diego County NAACP, the North County LGBTQ R...

Kori Jensen: “My son is not only gay, he is a Pan-Asian.” What does it take to become a member of the Oceanside City Council? One might be surprised to know how easy it was for the newest member of the the five-person body that controls a budget of $169 million and which oversees the third largest city in the county. Forget name recognition. There was a pool of 35 who applied for the District 1 seat left vacant by Esther Sanchez when she became mayor. They included an ex-mayor, a current planning commissioner, a retired military officer, an ex-cop and a former staffer from the Trump Admin...