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Residents and council debate data, opioid settlement and urgency as overdose numbers rise
Summary
Speakers at the District 2 town hall urged faster, coordinated action on overdoses and homelessness; Angel Tommy O'Sam said outreach connected 13 of 143 people to long‑term services and warned that criminalization and sweeps are not solutions.
Angel Tommy O'Sam, who operates a refuge for people experiencing domestic and gender‑based violence, said outreach teams’ recent data — 143 people contacted with 13 connecting to long‑term services (about 9 percent) — shows systemic gaps and should not be used to justify more coercive enforcement.
"Low engagement does not mean people are unwilling," Angel said. "It often means they've been failed too many times ... the system is too thin to hold them, too slow to respond, too removed from their lived…
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