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Jamie Lopez
60:17 - 60:49
“basically yesterday, um, there was a report that was pushed through the assembly, by the mayor with little fanfare. And it was a report on AO 2025-74-S2, the anti-camping ban ordinance. And so more or less, um, it was done pretty quickly. It was done based on this dashboard, which is 123 arrests, 962 voluntarily complied, and 72 accepted services.”
- Speaker
- Jamie Lopez
- Timestamp
- 60:17 – 60:49
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 10, 2026
From the transcript
So I was sort of semi-disappointed to see the price associated with that. So aside from that, um, basically yesterday, um, there was a report that was pushed through the assembly, by the mayor with little fanfare. And it was a report on AO 2025-74-S2, the anti-camping ban ordinance. And so more or less, um, it was done pretty quickly. It was done based on this dashboard, which is 123 arrests, 962 voluntarily complied, and 72 accepted services.
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