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Homeless people in a park in downtown Denver. (Courthouse News photo / Chris Marshall)
(CN) Denver health officials explained in federal court on Wednesday why they shirked Covid-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and cleared homeless encampments without notice a move a class of Denverites experiencing homelessness say violates a settlement agreement.
According to the lawsuit filed Oct. 5, Denver cleared at least 11 homeless camps between April and August, displacing more than 1,000 unhoused citizens. Covid-19 guidelines from the CDC advise against clearing encampments unless adequate housing is available.
“We always consider CDC guidance, but we don’t always follow it,” Bill Burman, Denver’s public health director, told the court. “These are guidelines, they are not mandates.”
During two days in federal court this week, Denver officials and a group of homeless individuals who ve sued the city painted vastly different pictures of homeless encampment sweeps during the COVID-19 pandemic. I think the presence of encampments is a complex and very difficult issue. I don’t think there’s a clear right and wrong answer in how we handle this complex problem, Bill Burman, director of Denver Public Health, testified.
The evidentiary hearing stemmed from a lawsuit filed in October by Andy McNulty of Killmer, Lane & Newman LLC on behalf of Denver Homeless Out Loud and ten homeless plaintiffs against the City of Denver, the State of Colorado and a contractor that works with the city on homeless encampment sweeps. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises municipalities not to sweep encampments during the pandemic, to avoid furthering the spread of COVID-19; the plaintiffs want Denver to stop the sweeps for the duration of the pandemic.
Homeless people in a park in downtown Denver. (Courthouse News photo / Chris Marshall)
(CN) A class of homeless Denverites asked a federal judge on Tuesday to bar the city from clearing encampments without notice, which they say violates a settlement agreement.
According to the lawsuit filed Oct. 5, Denver cleared at least 11 homeless camps between April and August, displacing more than 1,000 unhoused citizens. Covid-19 guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise against clearing encampments unless adequate housing is available.
“We’ve seen how the Covid-19 pandemic has reordered our lives, we’re sitting in court today in masks because of Covid-19,” said attorney Andy McNulty, of the civil rights-focused firm Kilmer Lane and Newman in a brief opening statement.