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Appeals court rejects state’s argument that severely disabled sex offenders cannot de-register
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week clarified for the first time that a 2018 change to state law now permits severely disabled sex offenders who are otherwise required to register for life to discontinue their registrations. Defendants convicted of certain serious sex crimes are generally required to register for the rest of their lives. However, the legislature in 2018 enacted…
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Replacement selected for exiting Colorado state Sen. Daniel Kagan
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State Rep. Jeff Bridges, a Greenwood Village Democrat, was selected Saturday by a Democratic vacancy committee to replace the departing state Sen. Daniel Kagan, D-Cherry Hills Village. Kagan announced last month he would resign his Senate District 26 seat effective Jan. 11. He participated in opening day festivities Friday at the State Capitol as the 2019…
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Colorado Sen. Kagan to resign; 3rd Senate Democrat to announce exit
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State Sen. Daniel Kagan says he will resign his Arapahoe County seat effective Jan. 11. He is the third Senate Democrat to announce plans to exit in coming weeks. The Cherry Hills Village Democrat said it has been “a great honor to serve the people of Colorado for just short of a decade. An important…
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Probe finds male state senator likely used women’s bathroom multiple times
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A workplace harassment investigation found it’s “more likely than not” that a Colorado state senator used a women-only restroom at the Capitol three times during the 2017 legislative session. The Denver Post reports the investigation of Sen. Daniel Kagan, a Democrat from Cherry Hills Village, was finished in June. But its details were not disclosed…
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Lawmakers back Denver Planned Parenthood workers’ union cause
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Legislators who defend reproductive rights on Tuesday urged Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains to support another Democratic value, the right to unionize. The question for workers at metro Denver clinics is pending before the National Labor Relations Board. Denver-area clinic workers voted in December to form a union. Management appealed to the NLRB, contending workers…
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Duran, other members picked for Legislature’s workplace harassment panel
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All six members of a summer committee that will review the Colorado General Assembly’s workplace harassment policies have been chosen, with Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran among its members, Colorado Politics has learned. Sens. Bob Gardner of Colorado Springs and Beth Martinez Humenik of Thornton will represent Senate Republicans on the panel, known as…
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11th hour compromise over Colo. civil rights panel in legislature
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A bill reauthorizing Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission – the subject of much contention during the 2018 Colorado legislative session – was sent on its way to the governor’s desk just before the final gavel fell Wednesday night. As a midnight deadline approached, a legislative conference committee worked out…
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Civil rights division bill could go by the wayside in session’s final days
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With just over 36 hours to go in the 2018 legislative session, one issue that has yet to be resolved is what happens to Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On April 30, the Senate passed its version of House Bill 1256, which drew immediate criticism from House Democrats and Gov.…
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Attempt to fix 2017 civil asset forfeiture bill moves forward
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An effort to complete a deal worked out by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s staff and opponents of a 2017 law reforming Colorado’s civil asset forfeiture statutes sailed through the state Senate Finance Committee Wednesday. The measure passed on a 5-0 vote despite losing one of its main sponsors. House Bill 1020 is intended to put in…
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Senate attempts compromise on civil rights division, commission; House sponsors say ‘no’
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Updated 5 p.m.: the governor weighs in. He doesn’t like it either. The Colorado state Senate Friday came up with a compromise on the reauthorization of the state’s Division of Civil Rights and Civil Rights Commission, but it’s a compromise only in the Senate between the two caucuses. House sponsors told Colorado Politics that they…
