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May 18, 2017

Good policy-making (mostly) won out over partisan politics in the 2017 Legislative Session

The post-mortem on this year's legislative session has been mostly positive. Lawmakers are being applauded for their willingness to place good policy-making above partisan politics. Governor Hickenlooper...

May 16, 2017

Frontier Airlines Flight Attendants File Discrimination Charges with EEOC

Airline Prohibits Breast Pumping on Duty, Despite 10-Hour Shifts

DENVER — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, and the law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP...

May 11, 2017

Bill to Reform Youth Corrections Heads to the Governor’s Desk

DENVER – The Colorado Legislature gave final approval last night to HB 1329, a bill to...

Apr 20, 2017

Colorado Springs Pays $212K to Settle ACLU Racial Profiling Suit

DENVER – The City of Colorado Springs has agreed to pay $212,000 to settle a racial profiling lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Colorado alleging that Ryan and Benjamin Brown were pulled over because of their...

Apr 12, 2017

ACLU of Colorado Files Lawsuit Demanding Documents on Implementation of Trump Muslim Ban

DENVER — ACLU affiliates in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming and Alaska filed a joint Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...

Mar 2, 2017

DYC’s Punitive Culture is Hurting Colorado Kids, and Making Kids and Staff Unsafe

Coalition calls for a new approach based on highly-successful Missouri model

Denver, CO (3/2/17) – Violence in Colorado’s Division of Youth Corrections (DYC) facilities has risen...

Coalition calls for a new approach based on highly-successful Missouri model

Denver, CO (3/2/17) – Violence in Colorado’s Division of Youth Corrections (DYC) facilities has risen...