Marianne GoodlandThe amendments would change the seven-member civil rights body to eight members and allow parties in a complaint to take the complaint to a district court rather than allowing the commission to resolve it.
Marianne GoodlandThe General Assembly has added another three dozen-plus bills in the past week to their 2018 workload but with one fewer week in which to deal with them. As of Wednesday morning, 328 bills are still looking for final resolution.
Wednesday's biggest dogfight at the state Capitol is likely to be over House Bill 1256, the measure to reauthorize the state's Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The bill is scheduled for the Senate Judiciary Committee at 1:30 p.m.
Debbie Kelley, The GazetteCOLORADO SPRINGS — An operational audit of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind will be conducted after detailed concerns about the school were presented in a briefing to the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee.
Rachel Riley, The GazetteThe Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from El Paso County after a 4th Judicial District Judge ordered the release of two inmates who were being held solely at the request of federal immigration enforcement authorities.
The ACLU of Colorado sued Sheriff Bill Elder on Feb. 27 on behalf of two inmates, arguing that the Sheriff’s Office has illegally kept people in jail “for days, weeks, even months” after they posted bond or resolved their cases, because ICE asked that those inmates be detained.
The county appealed Bentley’s decision to the Colorado Supreme Court.
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After months of drama over the Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a budget committee Wednesday quietly ensured the agency will be funded in 2018-19, should a related bill pass the General Assembly.
While the bill reauthorizing the Colorado Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission is still awaiting Senate review, Senate Democrats and Republicans are already battling over a related issue, on what happens when the Senate doesn't agree with an appointment.
Joey BunchWe don’t use that word in Colorado anymore. Not in our laws and not in the government offices that serve all the people. No one deserves to be put down by public servants. No one.
For the fourth year in a row the Colorado House gave initial approval to a bill to ban conversion therapy by licensed therapists who counsel minors who think they might be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
None of the offenders is politically prominent and most of the offenses are relatively minor.