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Snakeoil, whose organization offers services for unhoused people, said she first encountered Becerra Moran at MacArthur Park in late 2023, when police were warning about a serial killer who appeared to be targeting homeless people.

Butte County has also taken steps to keep and update a list of vulnerable residents — people with mobility issues or who are unhoused — so emergency workers can try to notify them ahead of a disaster and arrange for transportation.

The number of unhoused people in the county in 2024 dropped for the first time in five years but 2025 totals have not been released because the count was delayed due to the recent fires.

“Not only are sweeps disruptive to the unhoused people who have created community, mutual support, and neighborliness along the Arroyo against all odds, they are also an obscene waste of city resources, and they accomplish nothing,” Gustafson wrote.

And please don’t forget our unhoused neighbors who don’t have the option of frivolously complaining about all this.