San Jose police help Valley Water cite, arrest homeless residents - San José Spotlight

San Jose police help Valley Water cite, arrest homeless residents - San José Spotlight

Santa Clara County’s largest water agency can’t cite or arrest homeless people creating pollution or trespassing on its property — but the police unit it contracts with can. It’s part of Valley Water’s Stream Stewardship Law Enforcement program, where San Jose Police Department officers from the street crimes unit go out to homeless encampments along Coyote Creek, Guadalupe River and other waterways every other week to serve warrants, write cita…