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Darren O'Connor

Colorado Protests Get The Goods

July 20, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain. Their deaths at the hands of police are the latest to shock the collective conscience of our country, and their names have been lifted at protests nationally, internationally, and right here…

Community Corner

Governor’s Order on Ballot Initiatives Highlights Justice Inequities – Community Corner

June 22, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The pandemic is providing a lens through which inequity is plainly visible for all to see. Essential workers earning survival wages are dying so we can go to the supermarket, e.g., and Governor Polis has made highly visible public proclamations…

Community Corner

Progress v Politics: Where is our Petition System? – Community Corner: Spring 2020

May 18, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

In 2018, Boulder voters approved collecting digital petition signatures. This would have provided a solution to the current conundrum, but staff have eschewed an open source, free software solution and instead have been working towards a software solution that would…

Community Corner

Community Corner – It’s the end of the world as we know it…

April 9, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

...And we all feel fine. At least the vast majority of us did, until or unless we had been reading about needing to flatten the curve representing COVID-19 cases vs. time. American healthcare, long in the headlines, is now in…

Community Corner

March 1, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

Second and Twentieth Judicial District Attorneys Beth McCann and Michael Dougherty joined in a recent friend of the court (amicus) brief submission to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Community Corner

Community Corner: Darkest Before the Dawn?

January 2, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

If the truism that it is always darkest before the dawn holds up, local and national government policy on homelessness must soon see positive change. Current policy across the country has indeed gotten darker, from Trump vilifying people experiencing homelessness…

Community Corner

Community Corner: Protect & Serve or Arrest & Torture?

November 28, 2019 Like 1 Darren O'Connor

The recent lawsuit Lauren Gotthelf filed for excessive use of force in Boulder County Jail is buttressed by video evidence of her being tased while strapped to a chair and placed on suicide watch. In years past, such alleged abuse…

Commentary

Community Corner – Yates Wielded Forbidden Power

October 22, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The City of Boulder’s Charter, Article II, Section 13, describes the only power expressly withheld from council members; Bob Yates violated this rule blatantly and publicly. For such flouting of this express rule limiting council member powers, voters will have…

Magazine

Community Corner | Officer Lord V the UnHoused

August 31, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

Ever since Naropa University student Zayd Atkinson was detained without cause for the non-crime of picking up garbage while Black, the City of Boulder’s response provides some hope for the future, but the response of some Boulder police officers should…

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Boulder’s Independent Legal Review Of Sammie Lawrence Arrest: Anything But

June 27, 2019 1 0 Darren O'Connor

Mr. Troyer's so-called independent review of Mr. Lawrence's brutal arrest regurgitates the Boulder Police Department's reports and, leaving critical details out, predictably but disappointingly concludes that no policy was violated either in the arrest or in the department's review of…