Agencies restrict ‘non-essential’ people from Blakeslee Junction encampment

Posted 9/7/23

After a sweep of the Blakeslee Junction homeless encampment began on Tuesday, a Chronicle journalist was escorted off the site on Thursday afternoon following a Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) order restricting access to the camp by “nonessential” people.

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