One of the state’s top policymakers on homelessness wants some Utahns to be forced into treatment at the massive shelter campus proposed for Salt Lake City.

At the request of state leaders — namely Gov. Spencer Cox, Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, and House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper — Homeless Services Board Chair Randy Shumway has been working on aligning the state’s system with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on crime , which, in part, calls for ditching the federal government’s long-held priority of getting homeless people into housing first and, instead, beefing up behavioral health care and civil commitment policies.

To that end, Shumway presented a suite of recommendations to a group of state lawmakers Tuesday — without the formal backing of his

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