“They assault our friends, steal our bikes and cars, break into our houses, sell drugs to our kids… “
Peggy Sands is an artist in Boulder, Colorado, worked on Boulder City Council member Mark Wallach’s campaign, and a is member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.
Peggy helped build one of Safer Boulder’s websites, though it never got off the ground.
On the transients page, Peggy describes people experiencing homelessness as “like locusts”.
The bottom of the “Transients” page has some notes for future content.
On July 7th, a community member spoke against Safer Boulder at Boulder City Council’s public comment section. In retaliation to these comments, Peggy posted that speakers home address, phone number, and age to the rest of the group.
In an email to Boulder City Council member Bob Yates, Peggy writes that 80% of people experiencing homelessness in Boulder are meth addicts and describes them as a “contamination vector”. The 80% figure Peggy is referencing an anecdotal estimate from Boulder Police’s Homeless Outreach Team about the amount of meth use they see in the subset of the population they engage with. Peggy goes on to ask Mr. Yates not to share her email because she doesn’t “want the flack”.
Peggy claims to have worked on Council member Mark Wallach’s campaign. Mark has reliably voted against measures that would help people experiencing homelessness.
