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Devon Kurtz

@dkurtzz

Public Safety Policy @InstituteCicero

Katılım Eylül 2011
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Bloomberg CityLab
Bloomberg CityLab@CityLab·
Utah proposed a Salt Lake City homeless 'campus' with an involuntary treatment element. The plan is in limbo, but the movement behind it may be just getting started bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
“The very foundation of the Housing First consensus is wrong.” @Bloomberg @CityLab writes about Utah's rejection of failure on homelessness, featuring @Clancy4Utah, Cicero's @dkurtzz, and others fighting for real solutions that tackle street camping, mental illness, and drug addiction.
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Bloomberg CityLab@CityLab

Utah proposed a Salt Lake City homeless 'campus' with an involuntary treatment element. The plan is in limbo, but the movement behind it may be just getting started bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Scott Turner
Scott Turner@SecretaryTurner·
I’ve seen Housing First fail my own family.  A bed is a band-aid that only benefits the homeless industrial complex.  HUD will treat the root causes of homelessness, not enable it.
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Pamela Hensley🇺🇸
Pamela Hensley🇺🇸@PamelaHensley22·
The Chinese were playing "YMCA" with a marching band. I know President Trump wanted to dance so badly to this. 😂
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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
.@GovStitt couldn’t be more right. This is a huge step forward for public safety in Oklahoma. Even when state lawmakers take action to address homelessness, some cities would rather let people keep suffering on the street than enforce the law. In Oklahoma, that’s about to change. HB 3985 gives residents a way to fight back when cities refuse to address the homelessness crisis. Watch his explanation of how it works. The leadership of Rep. Caldwell (@Trey_OK63), Sen. Daniels, Sen. Paxton (@senatorpaxton), and Rep. Hilbert (@kylehilbert) made this win possible for the people of Oklahoma.
Governor Kevin Stitt@GovStitt

I started the conversation with Operation Safe. I made it clear that it wasn't compassionate to let people sleep under a bridge. The Legislature took that seriously and gave this teeth. Now, if cities and counties are going to ignore rampant homelessness, residents have recourse. Thank you Representative Caldwell and Senator Daniels for getting HB 3985 to my desk.

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Deborah Geesling
Deborah Geesling@DeborahGeesling·
Both sides of Housing First sidestep key problems: 1. The IMD Exclusion. Even our faith organization can’t serve the most severely mentally ill. Must expand safety net, end it. 2. Involuntary treatment standards must match need. People like @kevinvdahlgren have documented that need thoroughly. What we lack is will to do the right thing.
WORLD@WNGdotorg

For decades, America’s homelessness policy has been shaped by the idea that housing should come first, and treatment can follow. Now, experts say there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to solving America's homelessness problem. wng.org/articles/time-…

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Deborah Geesling
Deborah Geesling@DeborahGeesling·
“Faith-based organizations do not need Washington to scale them; they need Washington to stop sidelining them.” 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 👏👏👏
Michele Steeb@SteebMichele

1/ My new op-ed: As the Church stepped back from the front lines of homelessness, the crisis accelerated dramatically. For generations, faith-based organizations led the fight against homelessness with a clear mission: recovery, accountability, and restored lives.

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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
Earlier this year, Utah dedicated $45 million to the new treatment-focused approach to homelessness endorsed by the Trump administration. As an article in today's New York Times makes clear, @GovCox and @Clancy4Utah are courageously setting an example for the nation on this issue, despite complaints from defenders of the failing status quo. The future of homelessness policy will emphasize mental health and addiction treatment. No one who is seriously interested in addressing the homelessness crisis can deny this. Cicero's @dkurtzz is quoted:
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Tyler Clancy
Tyler Clancy@Clancy4Utah·
Today the Utah Office of Homeless Services launched project BRIDGE: Case management, housing, legal services, reunification, mental health, & addiction treatment integrated. @GovCox is showing how Utah can lead the nation in responding to homelessness with a holistic approach.
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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
"Although the activists won’t admit it, the need for such treatment is significant. In Louisiana, the number of people living on the street with addiction issues has climbed by 25 percent in just the past five years." Read @dkurtzz in @FDRLST on why homelessness activists can't stop attacking policies that work:
The Federalist@FDRLST

With Louisiana Homeless Bill, Democrats Once Again Smear Sensible Policy As ‘Jim Crow’ thefederalist.com/2026/04/27/wit…

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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
Only the Homeless Industrial Complex could push policies this shamelessly unconstitutional, wildly ineffective, and completely unconcerned with the welfare of the people they claim to be helping. Fantastic reporting by @aaronsibarium.
Aaron Sibarium@aaronsibarium

NEW: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race. In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months. The policies are shocking.🧵

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Cicero Institute
Cicero Institute@InstituteCicero·
America is facing a catastrophic shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds. We have fewer than 40,000 of them. According to the Treatment Advocacy Center, most states need three to five times more beds than they have. Of the few psychiatric beds that do exist, roughly half are taken up by criminal patients – including sexually violent predators (SVPs) – who have been sent there by a court for treatment because they pose a danger to themselves or others. This process is known as civil commitment. These patients account for more than one-third of state psychiatric hospital expenditures nationwide. Psychiatric hospitals aren't designed for this. They're equipped to treat mental illness, not to house violent criminals. To free up valuable psychiatric beds for patients who haven't committed serious crimes, states need to rethink how they handle civilly committed sex offenders. They should create distinct sex offender-focused facilities that protect the public by better confining and treating this dangerous population.
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Rachelle Morris
Rachelle Morris@rachelle_morris·
The moment Karianne Lisonbee found out she’s the official GOP nominee. Utah’s “Iron Lady” loves the good people of Northern Utah and our nation. Let’s get this incredible woman across the finish line on June 23!
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Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys·
I understand news outlets need to sell papers, but the term "controversial policy" in headlines typically means 99.9% of humanity sees it as rational but an activist or two denounced it using some words they learned at Oberlin.
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Rachelle Morris
Rachelle Morris@rachelle_morris·
On Nov 1, 2025, @KariLisonbee took me to breakfast and told me that she had a clear answer to prayer from the Lord to not run for re-election in her Utah House seat. Karianne fought back tears as she told me this was hard to do, but she wasn’t going to fight the Lord. Following that breakfast, the Gibson ruling happened and all the redistricting drama that settled on that map for 2026. On Feb 20, 2026, I got a phone call from Karianne, informing me that several of her House colleagues had just approached her to run for CD2. Various folks across Northern Utah had already asked her to consider, so when that many colleagues asked her to run, she told me she was going to take the weekend to consider and pray about it. It takes a special kind of public servant to walk away from a legislative seat in which she had dominated every race, and to walk into uncertainty with faith and grace. It takes a special kind of public servant to serve so earnestly in her lame duck final session that her colleagues would ask her to run for Congress (42 have endorsed her). It takes a special kind of public servant to go all in on running to WIN against an “incumbent” with over $2M in his campaign account. Karianne is that special kind of public servant. She’s passed 100+ bills. She’s the only Utah woman to win 2 House Majority Whip elections. She’s got a relentless work ethic and inner drive to serve her constituents and the good people of Utah more broadly. Cheering on this GOOD public servant at state convention tomorrow! 🇺🇸
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Karianne Lisonbee@KariLisonbee

As we head to state convention tomorrow, I’m sharing the message I’ve texted CD2 delegates: Northern Utah deserves a trusted leader with a conservative record. During my time in the Legislature, I championed conservative causes over and over again! I sponsored the majority of our pro life and 2nd amendment bills, including one of the most important 2nd amendment laws in the country. I balanced budget after budget and brought more transparency to the budgetary process. I passed laws that bring justice to victims by holding their abusers accountable. I pushed back against Covid mandates. And I voted repeatedly to give parents more control over their children’s education. I will make my experience work for you in Congress! I’m not going to DC to be influenced by the swamp, send me to DC and I pledge to hold fast to my conservative principles and serve YOU! I humbly ask for your vote at the state convention this Saturday. I’m grateful to everyone who has joined Team Karianne. Let’s go win convention tomorrow! 🇺🇸

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