Colorado Clean Slate Act to remove 100,000 criminal convictions from public record

Colorado Clean Slate Act to remove 100,000 criminal convictions from public record

The way Jeffery Kytle tells it, he came to Colorado for vacation and left on probation. Twenty-one years ago, the Iowa resident bolted out the back of a Keystone condo when police busted in the front. He was in town for a ski vacation, to blow his buddy’s recent $20,000 casino jackpot, the now-66-year-old said … Read more

Colorado police oversight bill advances, propelled by whistleblowers

Colorado police oversight bill advances, propelled by whistleblowers

Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant. That sergeant went on to work … Read more