Maureen Young, a resident of His Nesting Place, listens as Phil Hester, director of parks and recreation, discusses putting cameras on top of their building to watch the surrounding area. The home for single mothers has been besieged with graffiti and drug dealing neighbors.
His Nesting Place is looking for protection
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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
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Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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Why is this a Parks & Rec issue? His Nesting Place used to be and I'm guessing still is a 501c3, Non-Profit.
They should be responible for the security of their building. If they are still on Market, where they were founded, they have had plenty of opportunity over the past 20yrs to find a better suited building.
Taxpayers should NOT be held to this standard, especially with the current budgetary problems the City and the Department of Parks and Recreation is facing.
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Dan,
Just to clear things up, the problem is with graffiti, neighborhood drug use and some violence in a neighboring park - all police issues.
The cameras will be mounted on their building, using their electricity - but will be monitoring the park and streets. The Police will be running the cameras and His Nesting Place has volunteered to help pay for the cameras.
Jeff