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Immigration Fingerprint Program Now Statewide
DENVER (AP) – A program that automatically checks the immigration status of all jail inmates in Colorado quietly went into effect this week following years of opposition and fears it could lead to...
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Pope Names Fargo Bishop As New Denver Archbishop
DENVER (AP/CBS4) – The new archbishop of Denver said Tuesday that he has a lot to learn about social issues in Colorado but God and gospel should be part of public debates. The Vatican announced that...
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ACLU: Legal Voters Questioned On Status In Colorado
DENVER (AP) – U.S citizens are among those who received letters from Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler questioning their right to vote, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday. The...
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Suspected Ineligible Colorado Voters To Learn Status
DENVER (AP) – People who received letters questioning their citizenship and right to vote will learn Wednesday what steps Colorado election officials plan next in the battleground state where every...
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ACLU Settles Breastfeeding Teacher Case
DENVER (CBS4/AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has settled a discrimination complaint filed against a Jefferson County charter school under the Colorado Nursing Mothers Act. The ACLU announced...
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Springs Panhandling Law Delayed Due To ACLU Lawsuit
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a panhandling ban in Colorado Springs. A hearing is set for a week from Thursday in Denver Federal Court in which the...
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Colorado Springs Defending Panhandling Ban
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Springs officials are in federal court Thursday defending a recent panhandling ban from a free-speech challenge. The Gazette reports that the American Civil Liberties Union wants...
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Colorado Springs Panhandling Ban Blocked By Judge
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – A judge has blocked the enforcement of Colorado Springs’ new panhandling ban. The Gazette reports that a U.S. District Court judge Tuesday held that the measure violates...
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Settlement Reached In Colorado Patrol Shooting
DENVER (AP) – The Colorado State Patrol has agreed to pay more than $1 million to the family of a man who was shot and killed when he refused to allow troopers into his Mesa County home without a...
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Pot Opponents Regroup Following Colorado, Washington Votes
SEATTLE (AP) – Kevin Sabet, a former White House drug policy adviser and an outspoken opponent of legalizing marijuana, watched with dismay last fall as voters in Washington and Colorado did just that....
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State Lawmaker Wants To Take All Misdemeanor Offenders’ DNA
DENVER (CBS4) – There’s a proposal to collect DNA from everyone who commits a crime in Colorado, no matter how small. The state already has DNA from the worst felons. Now Rep. Dan Pabone, D-Denver,...
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Denver’s DA Behind The Push For Expanding Criminal DNA Sampling
Mitch Morrissey (credit: CBS) DENVER (CBS4) – It’s headed for a tough fight in the Legislature, but the man behind the plan to require anyone convicted of any crime in Colorado to provide a sample of...
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Court Overturns Block Of Douglas County School Voucher Program
DENVER (AP/CBS4) – The Colorado Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling blocking one of Colorado’s first school voucher programs, saying Douglas County’s Choice Scholarship Program does...
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Gun Evidence Links Ebel, Clements’ Death
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP/CBS4) – Gun evidence links a Colorado parolee fatally shot in Texas with the death of Colorado’s corrections’ chief, investigators said Monday. The El Paso County sheriff’s...
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More DNA Sampling Passes Colorado House, Heads To Senate
DENVER (AP) – An expansion of DNA collection for some misdemeanor convictions cleared the Colorado House Tuesday with wide support, despite trepidations from some lawmakers who said the sampling also...
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Treatment Center In Pueblo Accused Of Placing Teens In Solitary Confinement
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) – A youth treatment center has agreed to work with the state after inspectors banned it from placing unruly teenagers in what was effectively solitary confinement. The state probe...
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Loveland Settles Over ‘Pot Smell’ Traffic Stop
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado says the city of Loveland has agreed to a $35,000 settlement regarding a traffic stop in 2011. Loveland police said Thursday that...
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ACLU Sues Over Colorado Execution Information
DENVER (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing state prisons officials to force them to identify the drugs and procedures they plan to use for the execution of Nathan Dunlap scheduled in...
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Booksellers Challenge Colorado Pot Magazine Provision
DENVER (AP/CBS4) – Booksellers have joined marijuana magazine publishers in challenging a Colorado law requiring that pot magazines be treated like pornography and be kept behind the counter. The...
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After Dunlap Reprieve, Lawyers Wonder ‘Now What?’
DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for convicted killer Nathan Dunlap are puzzling over their next step in three potentially significant court cases after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper granted Dunlap an...
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