Utah lawmakers set aside forced treatment proposal for homeless people

6 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 4

The plan would have moved 1,300 people to a campus outside Salt Lake City, and was backed by Governor Spencer Cox and aligned with President Donald Trump's approach.
Lawmakers adjourned without a vote after criticism that the site was underplanned, costly and a threat to civil liberties, with opponents calling it a detention camp.
They still gave Cox new funding and discretion for campus services, including treatment-focused or compulsory programmes, leaving the broader conservative push toward treatment over housing aid alive.

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