When someone calls 911 about a person sleeping behind a business, sitting for hours on a park bench, or wandering in distress, the response in Coweta County usually begins the same way: a police officer arrives. What happens next depends less on enforcement — and more on connection. “It’s not illegal to be homeless,” Newnan Police Chief Brent Blankenship said. “We try to make some type of rapport with those we come in contact with so that we can…
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