Report: Cranston mayor signs order to break up homeless encampment

CRANSTON MAYOR KENNETH J. Hopkins signed an executive order Wednesday to break up the encampment next to the city's police station after his proposal received pushback at a City Council meeting on Aug. 15, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
CRANSTON MAYOR KENNETH J. Hopkins signed an executive order Wednesday to break up the encampment next to the city's police station after his proposal received pushback at a City Council meeting on Aug. 15, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CRANSTON – The city police are reaching out to “any social services necessary in an effort to relocate and provide temporary housing,” as the police try to break up a homeless encampment next to its headquarters, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported Thursday.  Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins signed an executive order Wednesday to break up the encampment

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