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Advocate urges Davis County for more transparency and data on homeless shelter operations
Summary
A Layton resident testified at the Feb. 11 Davis County Commission meeting that county officials should pause new shelter contracts and collect more data after alleging problems at a downtown shelter; commissioners heard the concerns during public comment but took no formal action.
Jennifer Garner, a Layton resident who said she has worked for years with people with disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, told the Davis County Commission on Feb. 11 that she was “quite discouraged about the transparency that we're not getting as a public on the shelter.”
Garner described challenges she observed at a downtown shelter where she worked with residents seeking employment and treatment. “When I was working downtown ... I would say that 70 percent of them had mental health issues. But they were being — they were being medicated, they were self medicating with…
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