Justice

Colorado Needs Comprehensive Protection for Government Compelled Data 0
- February 5, 2006
One by-product of advancing technology is the unprecedented ability to collect, analyze, use and store information generated by the day-to-day lives of people. On one hand, this information gathering ability is highly beneficial, creating new efficiencies in, among other things, medicine, credit-granting, shipping and commerce, and even in government.
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Colorado’s Prison Spending Meltdown 0
- January 18, 2006
While lawmakers are deciding how to spend the proceeds from Referendum C, another budgetary crisis is flying under the radar. Simply put, Colorado faces a prison spending meltdown, and as politically unpopular as it may be, it is no longer a question of whether the legislature should take up sentencing law reform, but rather what the scope of those reforms should be.
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Prison costs are running out of control 0
- January 1, 2006
Colorado taxpayers spend around $100 million a year to incarcerate drug offenders in state prisons. So it’s worth asking why any kind of sentencing reform, which could save millions of dollars in prison spending, has been off the table in the budget debates of the last few years.
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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.
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When Policies Go to Pot: Colorado Should Take Back Control of Intra-state Drug War Priorities 0
- December 8, 2005
Like other American states, Colorado has long been dependent on federal assistance in carrying out illicit drug control policies. And as with most federal assistance to the states, federal tax dollars are accompanied by federal influence on local practices and priorities.
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Wasted Resources Running High 0
- 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.
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