On Sept. 4, Stitt announced the launch of an initiative called Swift Action for Families Everywhere, or Operation SAFE. Over the next three weeks, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation conducted sweeps of homeless encampments on state-owned property in Tulsa.
On Sept. 17, Stitt declared the sweep of Tulsa to be complete after 64 encampments were cleared and nearly two million pounds of “debris” were thrown away.
What exactly was disposed of was not disclosed in Stitt’s statement…