Council statement on 'unauthorised encampment' at car park near County Hall

Council statement on 'unauthorised encampment' at car park near County Hall

Several caravans have pitched up at the site this week

Second shots-fired report at Powerline Camp, Monroe County mulls moving up Sept. 1 deadline

Part of an encampment on the county-owned Thomson property off Rogers Street, where people have been living in tents and other improvised shelter for a few years. (Dave Askins, July 24, 2026)A second report in the span of a week about gunfire at Monroe County’s Thomson property off South Rogers Street has increased tensions around the homeless encampment there. The encampment, on county-owned land inside Bloomington city limits, is located just …