Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including government, the Great Salt Lake, vice and polygamy.
David Ibarra looks out his window every day and sees people camping outside his business.“People sleeping in tents, drug use on this side of the building over here,” the downtown businessman told FOX 13 News on Wednesday.It’s why he’s one of nine plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Salt Lake City arguing that the city itself has created a “nuisance” by not enforcing anti-camping laws.
Communities across the Wasatch Front are now required to have plans in place to shelter people when temperatures get 18 degrees or lower.Ibarra told FOX 13 News that he believes Salt Lake City has made improvements lately, but there is more than can be done.“This is fixable. But the first thing we have to do? Is enforce what’s already on the books,” he said.
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