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Operation SAFE

Local & Regional

Three cities, three approaches: how Oklahoma’s homeless encampment sweeps played out differently

Jake Ramsey, Oklahoma Watch

It is a tale of three cities.On the morning of May 22, Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers cleared a homeless encampment on vacant state-owned property in Norman under Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Operation SAFE initiative. Service providers said there was no warning that an encampment sweep would be happening.