Concord Police Planning to Clear North Main Street Encampment

Concord Police and street outreach workers are beginning to tell people living along the railroad tracks behind houses on North Main Street that they must move their encampment, or it will be cleared out.

The tracks are owned by CSX, which has a memorandum of understanding with the city police department to ‘arrest trespassers and others who may be committing crimes’ on their property.

Essentially, the agreement gives Concord Police permission to trespass on the railroad tracks, which are private property, and act against those who are there unlawfully.

The department has started the process of warning the half-dozen or so people living there that they will have to move before the city’s department, or CSX’s own law enforcement, take further action to clear the site, said Barrett Moulton, the deputy police chief of patrol.