Anyone know if Michael Moore visited Santa Cruz? This would be considered a typical bowel movement for him.

SANTA CRUZ — County officials this week released a list of 93 complaints of disruptive and illegal behavior near the county’s main offices and courthouse, adjacent to the Occupy Santa Cruz camp.

Since the camp was joined by dozens of tents that belong to the homeless, county workers and others have documented drug and alcohol use, public urination and defecation, littering, bathing in county restrooms, fights and more. Two pieces of artwork on display at the county building were vandalized — although county officials said it is not known who was responsible for it.

This week, two portable restrooms were installed in the park to supplement the one on Water Street since October, Pleich said.

“I think a lot of those sanitation issues came before the portable restrooms,” Pleich said. He added that there are hand-washing stations.

“We’re doing everything we can to ameliorate this problem,” Pleich said.

Protesters had asked city leaders to keep bathrooms in San Lorenzo Park open overnight. A permit unilaterally issued by the city earlier this month required that protesters install two more portable toilets.

Shauna Gunderson, another Occupy member, said the new restrooms, “put to rest the city’s largely exaggerated claims around sanitation.”

At least one incident on the county list wasn’t noted by the Sheriff’s Office: the discovery of an estimated 200 pounds of human feces near the county Veterans Memorial Building, just across the Water Street bridge from the camp.

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