“We must not allow ourselves to be willfully blind to the realities happening today on the Tule River,” said Arturo Rodriguez, communications/organizing director for Central Valley Empowerment Alliance. More importantly, our own conscience must be motivation enough to address the needs of the humans who call the river home.

A large Tulare County homeless encampment is taking the sheriff's department to court to defend what they see as their home and a safe place to isolate amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Homeless residents in the southern end of the central San Joaquin Valley have filed a lawsuit against the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office for attempting to clear out their encampment.