OCEANSIDE
Oceanside police officers, county health workers and several service providers staged what likely was the largest homeless outreach event ever held in the city at a growing encampment just off Oceanside Boulevard on Monday morning.
“Good morning, good morning,” Oceanside Police Officer Jose Perez said outside a tent alongside South Oceanside Boulevard shortly before 7 a.m. Monday. “Anyone in the tent? Can I just speak to you for a minute?”
Perez, a member of the police department’s four-officer Homeless Outreach, slipped into the tent with a flyer that promoted a resource fair that would provide information about shelters, housing assistance, medical and mental health care, veterans services and substance-use treatment.