Got Data? Then Get a Law to Protect It!0

• December 21, 2005

One by-product of advancing technology is the unprecedented ability of government to track and monitor the lives its citizenry.

The Colorado Legislature should consider a comprehensive data protection law that controls how government data are collected, created, stored, used and released by state and local agencies, while at the same time recognizing that Coloradoans are free citizens, not subjects who exist to fill databases with the details of their lives.

Wasted Resources Running High0

• November 17, 2005

Last year saw a new record for marijuana arrests in the United States. It’s worth asking if the Colorado Legislature should take a look at Colorado’s part in what amounts to a stunning misappropriation of criminal justice resources.

WHEN POLICY GOES TO POT: Its time to change Colorados strategy in the war on drugs0

• October 19, 2005

If President Bush gets his 2006 national drug control budget, Colorado will lose millions of dollars in federal funding for local drug enforcement. But rather than a crisis, the loss of federal drug war dollars would be a unique opportunity for Colorado to gets its own statewide drug control priorities in order.

Who Will Defend Property Rights in Colorado?0

• October 5, 2005

In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution allows local governments to seize private property to make way for private development that might create new jobs or increase tax revenues. Now nobody’s home or business is safe from either greedy government, or moneyed special interests looking for sweetheart deals backed by government muscle.