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Colorado justices decide pre-2025 law did not criminalize AI-generated child porn
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Colorado law prior to 2025 did not criminalize, as a means of sexually exploiting a child, the use of artificial intelligence to generate nude images depicting real children, the state Supreme Court concluded on Monday. The legislature acted this year to clearly establish a crime for someone to have or share fake, yet “highly realistic,”…
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Report ranks Colorado best in nation in early childhood policies
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A new report by a policy center based in Vanderbilt University has named Colorado the nation’s leader in early childhood resource availability for working parents. The average working parent with two children in Colorado has more than $56,000 in state resources available to them to and their family, according to the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center’s…
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Colorado’s prison population management plan activated due to overcrowding
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Ongoing issues within the Colorado Department of Corrections have prompted the state to trigger its Prison Population Management Measures — a policy framework established in 2018 to address overcrowding. It marks the first time the measures have been put into effect. Under the law, the governor must implement the management measures if the state’s prison…
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BREAKING: Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese announces resignation
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Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese of Colorado Springs announced her resignation Sunday evening, effective Monday, Sept. 15. Pugliese has represented House District 14 since January 2023. In 2024, she was chosen as minority leader in her first term after then-Minority Leader Mike Lynch of Wellington resigned, following a drunk driving arrest he had not…
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10th Circuit weighs courts’ authority to block Colorado legislative decorum rules
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The Denver-based federal appeals court questioned on Wednesday whether the rules of decorum governing public comments at Colorado legislative committee hearings are beyond the reach of the judiciary, thanks to the concept of legislative immunity. During oral arguments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, the judges explored the hypothetical restrictions lawmakers…
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The ‘people’s outlet’: How ballot initiatives shape Colorado policies
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For more than a century, Colorado voters have used the ballot box not just to elect leaders but also to make laws, shaping the state’s most defining policies through citizen-led initiatives. Those two avenues of policymaking — the first by legislators, the second by citizens — yet represent another point of tension that is inherent…
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Colorado legislators deny move to delete ‘tax increase’ language in ballot title in statewide publication
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Colorado legislators on Thursday rejected an attempt to change the title of a ballot measure in a widely disseminated publication in order to avoid mentioning that it would result in a tax increase for households with incomes above $300,000 a year. The proponent of the change argued that keeping “tax increase” in the measure’s title…
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‘Political theatre’ or necessary action? Colorado lawmakers weigh in on ‘divisive’ session
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While Democrats and Republicans clashed over the cause of an $800 million budget shortfall plaguing the Colorado state government, they agreed that the recently-concluded special session, which sought to solve that deficit, was one of the most “divisive” in years. On the one hand, Democrats insisted they got the work done. On the other hand,…
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Here is how Colorado’s corporate taxes will change
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Colorado tax policy currently is “coupled” with federal tax policy. What that means is when the federal government changes tax policy, Colorado’s policy automatically conforms to those changes. Changes to the federal tax code enacted through H.R. 1 resulted in the state losing $1.2 billion in income tax revenue, Democrats and state analysts said. Republicans…
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Need to catch up on Colorado’s special session? Here’s what happened this weekend
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Colorado legislators worked over the weekend to debate wolf funding, money for health insurance and inoculating Planned Parenthood — at least at the state level — from looming Medicaid cuts. Here’s what you need to know. Wolf funding One key question for legislators is whether to allow the use of any state dollars — regardless of the source…
