Colorado – ACSOL

CO: Divided state Supreme Court ruling allows convicted man to terminate sex offender registration

·May 19, 2020
·15 Comments

[coloradopolitics.com - 5/19/20] In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a criminal defendant was entitled to his request to de-register as a sex offender because he completed…

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CO: Colorado Governor Stops In-Person Registration During Pandemic

·April 23, 2020
·11 Comments

[ACSOL] The Governor of Colorado has issued an Executive Order that temporarily suspends the requirement to register in person during the pandemic. Specifically, the Order suspends the requirement that registrants…

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CO: Lawmakers consider changes to Colorado’s juvenile sex offender registry

·January 25, 2020
·6 Comments

[9news.com - 1/24/20] DENVER — It's not often you see prosecutors and public defenders working together on the same team. But Thursday night, representatives from both groups spoke before state…

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CO: Mom’s Lawyer Rebukes ‘Unfair’ Utah Law that Could Make Her Client Register as Sex Offender for Being Topless at Home

·November 20, 2019
·14 Comments

[newsweek.com - 11/20/19] A woman could be forced to register as a sex offender after prosecutors charged her with a crime related to going topless in her own home. On…

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CO: Colorado considers keeping some juvenile sex offenders off registry

·October 12, 2019
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[thedenverchannel.com - 10/12/10] DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have advanced a proposal to place fewer convicted juveniles on the state sex offender registry and partially seal the list from the…

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CO: State and local laws push more registered sex offenders into low-income communities

·July 24, 2019
·13 Comments

The laws requiring the names of convicted sex offenders nationwide to be catalogued, and available to the public, bear the names of children sexually assaulted and murdered by predators who…

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CO: Court upholds ruling to require teen who traded naked selfies with girls his age to register as a sex offender

·June 29, 2019
·19 Comments

[sentinelsource.com - 6/28/19] Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling last week that required a juvenile boy to register as a sex offender after sexting and trading erotic pictures with two…

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Janice’s Journal: Court Decision an Important Point on Path to Tipping Point

·June 24, 2019
·16 Comments

Another court has spoken the truth: registration is punishment. That court is Division III of the Colorado Court of Appeals. The case is People v. In the Interest of T.B.…

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CO: “The ultimate scarlet letter”: A 29-year-old could get name off sex-offender registry for juvenile crimes if Denver court decides he’s being cruelly, unusually punished

·June 22, 2019
·13 Comments

[denverpost.com - 6/22/19] A 29-year-old Coloradan made to register as a sex-offender for the rest of his life because of two sexual offenses he committed as a child and teenager…

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CO: Colorado Sex-Offender Registry Takes Another Brutal Hit

·June 21, 2019
·12 Comments

Colorado's sex-offender registry, already under legal siege, just took another hit. On June 20, the Colorado Court of Appeals determined that the lifetime registration requirement for Coloradans found guilty of…

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CO: Hundreds of sex offenders get their names taken off the sex offender registry every year

·February 5, 2019
·18 Comments

A Contact7 investigation found that in the state of Colorado, hundreds of sex offenders are getting off the sex offender registry every year. In one case, a felony sex offender's…

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CO: Judge Matsch On SORA: Cut The Crap, It’s Unconstitutional [UPDATED]

·November 21, 2018
·74 Comments

UPDATE: Oral Argument - Thursday, November 15, 2018 - Courtroom III https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/clerk/oral-argument-recordings 9/2/2017: In Millard v. Rankin, an as-applied challenge, Colorado Senior District Judge Richard Matsch rejected the pretty ribbons the…

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CO: Aurora middle-school parent mislabeled as sex offender when visiting son’s school

·November 4, 2018
·31 Comments

Staff in an Aurora school office staff mistakenly flagged a man as a registered sex offender when he and his family went to his son’s middle school for a recent…

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CO: Sex Offender Registration Act Requires Registry for Individuals with More than One Conviction for Unlawful Sexual Behavior

·July 6, 2018
·10 Comments

Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of second degree sexual assault and one count of third degree sexual assault and entered into a plea agreement. Among other things, the plea…

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CO: Judge tells man arrested in Aspen that sex offender registry is not punishment

·June 23, 2018
·24 Comments

A California man did not suffer cruel and unusual punishment or lack of due process after Aspen police charged him a year ago with failing to register as a sex…

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CO, TN: Foxes Guarding the Henhouse in Colorado and Tennessee

·June 14, 2018
·5 Comments

[blog.womenagainstregistry.org - 6/13/18] Colorado’s House Bill 18-1427 to eliminate conflicts of interests within the state’s Sex Offender Management Board seemed like a sure thing. The measure had not only bipartisan…

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CO, LA, VT: More states enact major “second chance” reforms

·June 12, 2018
·4 Comments

[ccresourcecenter.org 6/11/18] In recent weeks, three more states — Colorado, Louisiana and Vermont — have enacted laws intended to make it easier for people with a criminal record to find…

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CO: Hickenlooper vetoes bill to reduce conflicts of interests on Colorado’s sex-offender management board

·June 5, 2018
·7 Comments

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday vetoed legislation that would have barred members of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board from being able to profit from multi-million-dollar state contracts related to…