The Atlanta City Council voted to approve a plan to restrict access to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as complaints continue about a growing number of homeless people in the terminals.
There are already rules that restrict access from late at night through the early morning hours . But those restrictions could be extended around the clock.
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The Hennessey family had a two-hour flight ahead of them back home to Milwaukee on Monday. But some of what they’ve seen at the airports in Wisconsin and in Atlanta concerns them.
“I definitely think that there could be a possible danger. To them or my family or my kids,” Scott Hennessey told Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen .
There are rising complaints about people who are “unhoused”, sleeping in the terminal, asking for money, even harassing travelers.
The Atlanta City Council is determined to address those issues.
“Not only for the unhoused that is there but people at the airport who have no ‘business’ at the airport,” Atlanta City Councilman Byron Amos said.