JANESVILLE — Representatives of downtown Janesville businesses, the downtown Business Improvement District, Janesville Police Department and organizations that serve downtown homeless people gathered Tuesday to talk about how to best manage the presence of homeless people downtown.
The meeting followed a recent Janesville City Council vote to ban overnight camping in the parking lot of the Hedberg Public Library on South Main Street.
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