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Salt Lake City’s Leonardo museum complains about nearby homeless camp, says it creates safety concerns

The Leonardo museum says a block-long homeless camp along 500 South in Salt Lake City is a safety concern for its patrons.

“We’re a family museum, and we have field trips every day here,” Leonardo Chief Development Officer Debra Peterson told FOX 13. “Not that this is an issue from all homeless people, but there is drug use and there are issues.”

Peterson said museum staff clean up outside the building and have dealt with property damage. Two men who were fighting broke through a window the museum has yet to have repaired due to its $10,000 cost, she said.