DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS In July, the Boulder City Council approved an ordinance substituting the term “pet guardian” for “pet owner” in the city’s books. The change, which carries no legal value, was made at the request of the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, whose members believe it will foster…
In an effort to streamline what promises to be a lengthy legal process, all fourteen lawsuits filed by families of people injured or killed in the shootings at Columbine High School have been moved to federal court in Denver. But an attorney for two of the families says his clients…
What may have been the defining moment in the history of the Governor’s Columbine Review Commission unfolded last month. Consigned to a small meeting room in the basement of the Jefferson County Justice Center, struggling to make sense of the worst school massacre the country has ever seen and faced…
One of the most glaring deficiencies of the sheriff’s report is its cursory treatment of the circumstances that led up to the attack. “While this report establishes a record of the events of April 20,” it states, “it cannot answer the most fundamental question — WHY?…The evidence provides no definitive…
The Story They Don’t Want to Tell On the morning of Judgment Day, minutes before they launch their deadly assault on Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold complete their last video project together. Guns loaded, bombs and extra ammo packed in duffel bags and trench coats, they take…
There were a lot of things Melissa Sowder didn’t like about Columbine High School. The bullies, for instance. They were football players, mostly. They shoved her friends in the halls and threw snowballs or bottles at them on the way home. Sometimes they shoved her, too. Who needed it? “Teachers…
With the right defendant pulling the strings, Colorado’s domestic-violence system can be tied into knots. A victim’s story.
The mandatory arrest and treatment process can ensnare domestic-violence victims, too.
Some of Colorado’s cutting-edge science makes sense, some of it doesn’t.
Therapist Nancy Lantz runs counseling groups for men arrested for domestic violence. Her most important rule for the groups: Accountability.
Ten years ago, Colorado began to force batterers into treatment programs. But do they work?
Dave Thomas lives with the devastation of domestic violence every day.
Some domestic violence victims turn to the extreme end of the victim-services spectrum: They call Mike Newell.
For some victims, there’s no such thing as a “rush to justice.”
The rush to protect battered women has turned domestic violence into “the social issue of the Nineties” — and raised issues of fairness for both perpetrators and victims.
Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.
Colorado has become a national laboratory for domestic-violence programs. Sometimes it’s a strange science.
For offenders arrested in Jefferson County, speed is of the essence.
