Some Tulsa business owners say they support Gov. Kevin Stitt’s Operation SAFE, which sent troopers to clear homeless encampments from state property near highways and overpasses. But Mayor Monroe Nichols says the state-led action is creating more problems than it solves.

News On 6’s MaKayla Glenn spoke with a local business owner and city leaders about the impacts.

Q: Why are some business owners supporting the governor’s plan?

Kim Freeman, co-owner of Salon on Harvard, says safety and sanitation are ongoing concerns for her employees and clients.

“We had a man and a woman set up an encampment just in our back parking lot, grocery carts, cardboard boxes, and they were sleeping out there,” Freeman said.

She added that the presence of encampments or stragglers has made customers uneasy

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