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Concerning The Creation Of A Cash Fund Consisting Of Certain Money That The State Receives From The Federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund So That The Money Is Available For Appropriation Only In Other Legislation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning Regulations For Restrictive Housing In Local Jails., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Security Protections For Certain Criminal Justice System Personnel., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning Measures Related To Eyewitness Identification Techniques, And, In Connection Therewith, Requiring Reporting Data Related To Eyewitness Techniques And Regulating The Use Of Showup Identifications., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning The Transition Of Youth In Colorado’S Foster Care System To Successful Adulthood, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning The “Behavioral Health Recovery Act Of 2021”, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Expanding The Peace Officers Behavioral Health Support Grant Program To Include Community Partnerships, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Measures To Protect Personal Identifying Information Kept By State Agencies, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning Adoption Of Written Policies By Law Enforcement Agencies For Constitutionally Required Peace Officer Credibility Disclosure Notifications., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning The Protection Of A Pregnant Person’S Rights During The Perinatal Period, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Measures To Address Law Enforcement Accountability, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Increased Eligibility For Procedures To Reduce Collateral Sanctions Experienced By Defendants, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Offenders Who Committed An Offense When Under Twenty-One Years Of Age, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Adoption Of Written Policies By Law Enforcement Agencies For Constitutionally Required Peace Officer Credibility Disclosure Notifications., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning The Allocation Of Fifteen Million Dollars From The Economic Relief And Recovery Cash Fund Under The Federal “American Rescue Plan Act Of 2021” For Purpose Of Funding Victim’S Services Programs To Assist Persons Disproportionately Impacted By The Covid-19 Public Health Emergency, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning The Implementation Of Recommendations From The Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning The Treatment Of Persons With Mental Health Disorders In The Criminal And Juvenile Justice Systems Regarding Juveniles Who Have Committed Sex Offenses, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning Juvenile Diversion Programs., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Updates To Prohibitions Against Gender-Based Discrimination To Clarify The Individuals Who Are Included In A Protected Class., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Introduction To The Special Issue: A Retrospective On Race In America, Angela S. Boettcher, Quintin H. Morse, Nora Rainey Olson Cooke, Erin Mclaughlin, Caroline Young, Charissa Wood, Sasha Strong, Natasha Viteri, Taylor Schad

University of Colorado Law Review

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A Pound Of Flesh: How Medical Copayments In Prison Cost Inmates Their Health And Set Them Up For Reoffense, Rachel Wiggins

University of Colorado Law Review

The attitude of acquiescence in legislatures and courts has permitted the American prison system to develop a practice of exploiting the health of its incarcerated population as an additional and excessive form of punishment. This article focuses on a practice widely used in prisons-the imposition of medical copayments- which contributes to the current culture of endangering the physical and mental health of incarcerated persons, all in the name of cost cutting and prisoner control. The problem of medical copayments could be solved by both the courts, which could recognize that the practice serves no legitimate penological interest, and the states …

Table Of Contents (Vol. 92, Issue 3)

University of Colorado Law Review

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Women's Votes, Women's Voices, And The Limits Of Criminal Justice Reform, 1911-1950, Carolyn B. Ramsey

University of Colorado Law Review

Deriving its vigor from the work of grassroots organizations at the state and local levels, the League of Women Voters (LWV) sought, in the first half of the twentieth century, to provide newly enfranchised women with a political education to strengthen their voice in public affairs. Local branches like the San Francisco Center learned from experience-through practical involvement in a variety of social welfare and criminal justice initiatives. This Article, written for a symposium commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, assesses the role of LWV leaders in California and especially San Francisco in reforming three aspects of the criminal …

Reloading The Canon: Thoughts On Critical Legal Pedagogy, Chantal Thomas

University of Colorado Law Review

On the first day of the first-year contracts class that I teach, I preview for the students both the general contours of the “blackletter law” that we will be learning throughout the course, and some of the perspectives that I will incorporate in developing our critical thinking and analysis of the law. My aim is to impress upon the students that their understanding of the blackletter law––the technical training that many law students think of as constituting the bulk of their educational mission––varies positively with their understanding of and capacity for critical analysis. I go about this in part by …

Women’S Votes, Women’S Voices, And The Limits Of Criminal Justice Reform, 1911–1950, Carolyn B. Ramsey

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Deriving its vigor from the work of grassroots organizations at the state and local levels, the League of Women Voters (LWV) sought, in the first half of the twentieth century, to provide newly enfranchised women with a political education to strengthen their voice in public affairs. Local branches like the San Francisco Center learned from experience—through practical involvement in a variety of social welfare and criminal justice initiatives. This Article, written for a symposium commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, assesses the role of LWV leaders in California and especially San Francisco in reforming three aspects of the criminal …

Decarceration And Default Mental States, Benjamin Levin

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This Essay, presented at “Guilty Minds: A Virtual Conference on Mens Rea and Criminal Justice Reform” at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, examines the politics of federal mens rea reform legislation. I argue that current mens rea policy debates reflect an overly narrow vision of criminal justice reform. Therefore, I suggest an alternative frame through which to view mens rea reform efforts—a frame that resonates with radical structural critiques that have gained ground among activists and academics.

Common arguments for and against mens rea reform reflect a belief that the problem with the criminal system is one of …

Imagining The Progressive Prosecutor, Benjamin Levin

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As criminal justice reform has attracted greater public support, a new brand of district attorney candidate has arrived: the “progressive prosecutors.” Commentators increasingly have keyed on “progressive prosecutors” as offering a promising avenue for structural change, deserving of significant political capital and academic attention. This Essay asks an unanswered threshold question: what exactly is a “progressive prosecutor”? Is that a meaningful category at all, and if so, who is entitled to claim the mantle? In this Essay, I argue that “progressive prosecutor” means many different things to many different people. These differences in turn reveal important fault lines in academic …

Wage Theft Criminalization, Benjamin Levin

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Over the past decade, workers’ rights activists and legal scholars have embraced the language of “wage theft” in describing the abuses of the contemporary workplace. The phrase invokes a certain moral clarity: theft is wrong. The phrase is not merely a rhetorical flourish. Increasingly, it has a specific content for activists, politicians, advocates, and academics: wage theft speaks the language of criminal law, and wage theft is a crime that should be punished. Harshly. Self-proclaimed “progressive prosecutors” have made wage theft cases a priority, and left-leaning politicians in the United States and abroad have begun to propose more criminal statutes …

Policing And "Bluelining", Aya Gruber

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In this Commentary written for the Frankel Lecture symposium on police killings of Black Americans, I explore the increasingly popular claim that racialized brutality is not a malfunction of policing but its function. Or, as Paul Butler counsels, “Don’t get it twisted—the criminal justice system ain’t broke. It’s working just the way it’s supposed to.” This claim contradicts the conventional narrative, which remains largely accepted, that the police exist to vindicate the community’s interest in solving, reducing, and preventing crime. A perusal of the history of organized policing in the United States, however, reveals that it was never mainly about …

Sanctuary Cities And The Power Of The Purse: An Executive Dole Test, Douglas M. Spencer

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A constitutional clash is brewing. Cities and counties are flexing their muscles to frustrate national immigration policy while the federal Executive is threatening to interfere with local law enforcement decision making and funding. Although the federal government generally has plenary authority over immigration law, the Constitution forbids the commandeering of state and local officials to enforce federal law against their will. One exception to this anti-commandeering principle is the Spending Clause of Article I that permits Congress to condition the receipt of federal funds on compliance with federal law. These conditions, according to more than 30 years of Supreme Court …

When We Breathe: Re-Envisioning Safety And Justice In A Post-Floyd Era, Aya Gruber

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10th Annual David H. Bodiker Lecture on Criminal Justice delivered on Wed., Oct. 21, 2020 at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.