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Residents urge Fulshear to regulate residential-treatment homes after repeated police calls; staff to pursue legal review
Summary
At a council public hearing, multiple residents described repeated police and emergency calls to a nearby residential-treatment property and urged the city to adopt ordinances; staff said state preemptions limit some local authority but will work with legal to draft registration and other measures.
Several Fulshear residents used the council’s public-hearing period on Dec. 16 to press elected officials for stricter rules and more transparency about residential-treatment operations that have opened in single-family neighborhoods.
At the hearing, Kathy Ward said the house next door was not a group home or community home with federal protections and that her neighborhood has seen “numerous police calls.” Dawn Prophet, who lives adjacent to the property she identified as New Life Residential Treatment…
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