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Law enforcement agencies along the Front Range are getting a new recruit: drones

July 28, 2024 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By Emma VandenEinde, KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) It’s a hot and windy Thursday afternoon at the Boulder County Regional Fire Training Center. But that doesn’t stop officers on site from powering up the drones for a practice mission. “You are…

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Boulder County Jail struggles to implement Colorado mental health law limiting solitary confinement

July 18, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By John Herrick, Boulder Reporting Lab (Via AP Storyshare) In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law that restricts holding people with a diagnosed mental illness in solitary confinement, part of a push in legislatures across the country to curb a…

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The O’Connor Corner: CO Legal

November 29, 2018 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

Mental Health Diversion. “It’s why we started the mental health diversion program . . . . Brent . . . has been arrested 35 times in the last five years. . . . He shared with me he has a…