Ketchikan City Council updates municipal laws related to homelessness

Ketchikan City Council updates municipal laws related to homelessness

The Ketchikan City Council Chambers shown in Downtown Ketchikan. (Hunter Morrison/KRBD) The Ketchikan City Council approved updates to its municipal laws Thursday night that will limit where people can sit, lay or camp within city limits. While some council members said the changes were created with safety in mind, several community members argued they could negatively impact the city’s unhoused population. The city council listened to roughly a…