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Juneau residents urge action on homelessness and street camping; calls for task force and temporary campground
Summary
Multiple residents urged the assembly to enforce camping laws, reopen summer campgrounds and create a task force to coordinate services and cleanup; speakers described safety concerns and urged stronger enforcement and shelter options.
A broad group of Juneau residents used the public-comment period to urge the City and Borough Assembly to take stronger, coordinated action on homelessness, tent encampments and related public-safety and sanitation issues.
Speakers described repeated break-ins, public drug use, discarded needles and trash in public rights-of-way and private property adjacent to trails and neighborhoods. Scott Jenkins said the city’s right-of-way camping laws exist but questioned enforcement: “Why are we not enforcing this law correctly?” he asked. Several speakers requested an assembly-established task…
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