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Residents urge stronger enforcement and criticise local homeless response during public comment
Summary
Multiple public commenters at the Grants Pass council meeting urged tougher enforcement, criticized perceived corruption around homelessness programs, and warned against dehumanizing rhetoric toward unhoused people; speakers raised public-safety and privacy concerns.
During the public-comment period, several residents urged the council to take stronger enforcement action related to downtown camping, panhandling and cleanup around known problem sites, while others criticized community rhetoric about unhoused residents and raised privacy concerns.
Mike Pelfrey used his two minutes to allege local corruption tied to what he called a "homeless industrial complex," saying he…
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