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Speaker says shelters are dangerous and recounted assault, telling council they cannot use local shelters
Summary
At public comment, a resident said they could not stay in municipal shelters because of safety concerns, detailed an assault and ongoing stalking dating to 2017 and said trauma prevents them from using available shelters.
During public comment, one resident said they cannot use local homeless shelters because they are dangerous and recounted being assaulted and stalked.
“no puedo quedarme en un albergue, son peligrosos…una mujer trans me…me asaltó…trauma postraumático,” the speaker said, adding that the person who followed them since 2017 was “protegida por la policía” in the speaker’s account and that those incidents have disrupted their life.
The speaker asked whether anyone would be sent to follow up or speak with them; the excerpt does not record a staff response or a referral to services within the provided transcript segments.
These remarks occurred during the public-comment period and are recorded as personal testimony about shelter safety; no formal policy decision or vote on shelter operations appears in the supplied excerpt.
