SLC mayor: There will be no police crackdown on the homeless during NBA All-Star Game
Outreach teams and public safety workers may offer unhoused Utahns help as streets close, Mendenhall said, but unsheltered residents face no threat of increased enforcement.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Banners at the City Creek Mall advertise for All-Star weekend on Saturday. Salt Lake City doesn't plan any sweeps of homeless camps during the events.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.