Parking areas of the Cypress Park Home Depot before and after anti-loitering speakers were installed.
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Home Depot explains high-pitched speakers in Cypress Park
Cypress Park—Home Depot has denied that new anti-loitering loudspeakers at the Cypress Park location were related to a recent immigration raid. “The noise devices and barriers at this location are specifically designed to solve illegal overnight parking, encampments and related issues that were creating a safety hazard under the CalTrans facility,” the company said in a statement. The comment comes in the wake of news reports about the high-pitched tone from six square speaker boxes in the parking lot area under the 5 Freeway overpass.Â
Atwater Village streetlight outage guide
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Atwater Village—The Neighborhood Council has published a guide about streetlight outages in the area. It includes an email address where people can report outages and help maintain a map of them. Outage information
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Photos show before and after conditions in the Home Depot parking lot where noise devices were installed, according to the company.
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