charging that violations of the agreement"have increased in severity to the point that it is widely acknowledged among service providers and advocates that the brutality of the tactics being deployed by Denver have not been seen since before the entry of the Lyall settlement agreement. Some of these tactics have included intimidation, threats, and assault. All of the actions of Denver, its officials, and its contractors described in this letter are completely unacceptable.
The agreement also required the city to place a 48-hour notice on unattended items rather than remove them, as long as those items did not pose a health and safety risk. Belongings taken by the city during sweeps were to be kept at a storage facility. Additionally, McNulty wrote that he had received"credible reports that Denver, and its contractors, discarded unhoused individuals’ property , without even the pretense of storing it" on seventeen occasions since March.