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Sex Offender Management Board

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2013

    Civil rights lawsuits attack excesses of Colorado's sex offender laws

    Colorado's tough sex offender laws are supposed to keep predators under tight supervision. But a series of lawsuits claim that the system is violating even minor offenders' rights to free speech and association, prohibiting contact with family members -- and, in one particularly bizarre case, telli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Bill Ritter did the right thing by vetoing sex offender bill

    ​Governor Bill Ritter will sign a slew of bills this week -- the deadline for action on all legislation coming out of this past session is June 11 -- but he put HB 1364 on a fast track, Vetoing the bill Friday afternoon. He did the right thing. As the longtime Denver District Attorney, Ritter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Bill Ritter vetoes sex offender bill over Joyce Foster's controversial amendment

    Bill Ritter just says no.​Senator Joyce Foster's last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364, which allowed sex offenders to choose among three treatment options, stirred plenty o' controversy, owing largely to her subsequent admission that the action was inspired by her brother-in-law, Julian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Sex offender debate turns into public pissing match

    ​It's time to expand the discussion of the bill that would continue this state's Sex Offender Management Board beyond state senator Joyce Foster -- who certainly should have revealed that the prime motivator behind her amendment of the measure was her own brother-in-law, a convicted sex offend ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Age Inappropriate

    A casual fling can earn a lifetime label as a sex offender.

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of June 19, 2003

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Arrested Development

    A Denver therapist wants to lock up sexual predators -- forever. But patients say the treatment is just making them bitter.

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Telling Tales Out of School

    After her retarded daughter was sexually assaulted, a mother decided to teach DPS a lesson.

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