To combat safety issues, which includes problems with a large number of homeless people who used the previous library, cameras were added as was security staff and a more rigid compliance to the rules. The library is lobbying the city for a downtown day center for homeless that would have the facilities, like showers, that the library cannot provide. The men's lavatories are an intense, unpleasant green to shuffle people out more rapidly.

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