Since 1998, Colorado FriendShip has served hot meals and distributed clothing and toiletries to homeless people from the parking lot of the Boulder County Justice Center on Canyon Blvd.
“We have been serving from that parking lot for 27 years,” Liz Friedenson, the executive director of Colorado FriendShip, said. “It’s a well-oiled system that has gone on for a long, long, long time.”
But on Sunday, Nov. 9, officers from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office greeted the organization at the parking lot and told staff it was their verbal warning that they could no longer serve food there because they did not have a permit. (The Justice Center is county property within city jurisdiction.) The next Sunday, Nov. 16, Colorado FriendShip didn’t serve a hot meal for the first time in nearly three decades after failing to find another location…