public safety
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Denver council OKs electronic monitoring contract with private prison company
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The Denver City Council approved a $1.5 million contract Monday with B.I. Incorporated – owned by private prison giant GEO Group – for electronic monitoring equipment through Jan. 31, 2025. This comes after the council voted to cut ties with GEO Group in 2019, ending $10 million of contracts with GEO Group and CoreCivic, another…
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Q&A with Sen. Chris Holbert | Looking forward to life after the legislature and Florida
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Sen. Chris Holbert, who served four years in the House before jumping to the Senate, hits term limits this year and will end his legislative career at the conclusion of the 2022 session. He might still be around the state Capitol, as he’s considering a return to trade association management, which he worked in before…
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TIMELINE: As the Marshall Fire raced, residents fled their homes and community
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It’s 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, and Brenda Leighton is shopping for fireproof cabinets and safes. She’d long debated installing them in her home in Superior. She does not know that roughly 30 minutes ago, a grass fire had ignited and would soon consume her home of 18 years. “When I went outside, I was freaking…
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Colorado’s prison population, once forecast to boom, now is expected to level
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Colorado’s prison population, which six months ago was projected to hit a record high in 2025, now is expected to level over the next six years. The state Department of Public Safety predicted in December that the population of prisoners would swell by more than 20% between fiscal years 2018 and 2025, from 20,136 at…
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Gun rights activist Kanda Calef lost concealed carry permit after I-25 arrest
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The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office revoked Kanda Calef’s concealed weapon permit about two weeks after the hard-line gun rights supporter was arrested. Colorado troopers arrested Calef on April 10 on suspicion of brandishing a pistol at an off-duty U.S. marshal in the Interstate 25 “Gap” construction zone near Larkspur. The troopers confiscated her Smith…
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A Colorado county’s sheriff’s office opts to enforce immigration laws
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Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell is doubling down on efforts to enforce immigration laws as border crossings have become a hot issue in national politics. Mikesell has signed an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, that will allow two members of his staff to be trained to interrogate suspected undocumented migrants…
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Noonan: Oil and gas ‘sides’ need to move forward to secure public safety
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Both “sides” in the arguments over oil and gas development say the other is “taking advantage” of the explosions in Firestone and Mead. This should not be a time for sides. This should be a time for serious analysis. It can also provide an opening that should, for the sake of everyone in the state,…
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Threats, harassment a grim part of public life, lawmakers say
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A side effect of taking public policy positions in 21st century politics – being threatened Capitol veterans and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle greeted news that a 21-year-old Arvada man had been arrested and charged with threatening to shoot state Sen. Laura Woods with sympathy for the Arvada Republican and a grim acknowledgement that…
