Lawyer, 42, who has been designated a “sexually violent predator,” registered with the Boulder Police Department on Monday and listed the shelter, at 4869 Broadway, as his primary address.
Department of Corrections spokesman Mark Fairbairn said Wednesday that it’s standard for the state to pay homeless shelters — typically between $60 and $200 a week — for “parole beds” in order to house parolees who cannot find more permanent housing.
Fairbairn said Boulder’s shelter is getting paid $280 a week, which he acknowledged is on the “high end” for a state-funded parole bed. He said such costs are negotiated with the individual shelters.
Greg Harms, executive director of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, said parolees are allowed to stay at the shelter for 60 days at most, which is the same time other homeless people can stay at the shelter. The so-called parole beds are not separated from the other beds physically and have no special restrictions, and parolees have to meet the same requirements as anyone else to stay at the shelter.
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