Behind the Badge
OCSD Quality of Life Deputy for Mission Viejo helps get homeless family into temporary housing
0In her 14 months as Mission Viejo’s first Quality of Life Deputy, Dana Chaney has experienced success in helping people with issues associated with homelessness. On the flip side, some of the people she has reached out to have accepted her help, but ended up back on the street. Others have refused any assistance offered by Chaney, an 11-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department whose job is to proactively address the needs of the homeless community in Mission Viejo, the largest city the OCSD contracts with for police services. Chaney recently experienced one of her biggest successes: helping…
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