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Aurora lawmakers look to end photo speed enforcement program contract
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After a series of tech and staffing difficulties, Aurora City Councilmembers agreed Thursday to end the current contract with a vendor for the city’s van photo speed enforcement program. The program, which uses vans to photograph and ticket speeding drivers, has lost about $500,000 since its beginning as a pilot program in July of 2022. …
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Aurora lawmakers look to end photo speed enforcement program contract
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After a series of tech and staffing difficulties, Aurora City Councilmembers agreed Thursday to end the current contract with a vendor for the city’s van photo speed enforcement program. The program, which uses vans to photograph and ticket speeding drivers, has lost about $500,000 since its beginning as a pilot program in July of 2022. …
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Stealing more than $100 worth of goods, or dining-and-dashing, results in Aurora jail time
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Aurora adopted harsher penalties for theft in the city, a move that supporters said will help reduce theft and one that opponents said will cost the city more in incarceration costs for a strategy that isn’t effective. Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky brought forward two ordinances at Monday night’s council meeting that add to the original ordinance…
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New Aurora police ‘transparency portal’ shows crime stats, demographics, use of force
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Aurora Police Department launched a transparency portal this week, a move to provide the public a way to access crime statistics, demographics and use of force data as the city continues to move forward through the consent decree. Information in the portal will be regularly updated with information meant to make the department’s actions more…
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Aurora City Council debates harsher punishment for retail theft
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The Aurora City Council agreed to move forward with two ordinances Monday night that would broaden the city’s mandatory minimum sentence for retail theft ordinance that passed last year. Both ordinances were put forward by Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky and would add to the original ordinance passed in 2023, which set a three-day minimum mandatory jail…
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Lauren Boebert lands 5th in GOP straw poll, Janak Joshi jumps into 8th CD race | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Jan. 29, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s middling finish in a straw poll Thursday night drew gasps from the crowd that had just witnessed the Colorado lawmaker face off against eight other Republicans in a congressional primary debate at a rec center in Fort Lupton. The…
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Heather Morris named Aurora interim police chief following Acevedo’s departure
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Heather Morris was sworn in as Aurora’s new interim police chief this week, taking over the department’s top position after former chief Art Acevedo resigned earlier this month. As interim chief, Morris said she is proud to lead the team and excited to continue to reduce crime and make progress with the consent decree the…
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Aurora officer’s search of 17-year-old was unconstitutional, appeals court rules
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An Aurora officer lacked proper justification to search a 17-year-old vehicle passenger, and an Arapahoe County judge mistakenly allowed evidence from the search to be used against the teenager, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month. During his pat-down of a boy identified by the initials E.J.G., Officer James Snapp uncovered a gun. For possessing a…
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Aurora police officer can be added to lawsuit over 2020 protests, judge rules
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A federal judge has allowed a group suing Denver and Aurora police over the 2020 George Floyd protests to change their lawsuit to add one officer and drop another. In the latest request, the protesters’ attorneys said they have received new body-worn camera footage that points to a different officer than the one previously accused…
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Aurora police officers undergo new de-escalation, bias training
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The Aurora Police Department said it has provided de-escalation training from nationally established programs to its officers, part of complying with its ongoing consent agreement with the state. The department is also developing new anti-bias training. All sworn officers have gotten instruction in constitutional policing, Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) and Active Bystandership for…
