Sex Offender Management Board rules changed for one offender… and one program

Concern over the legislature's last-second changes to the bill that continues the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board is growing, with an editorial in the Denver Post on Saturday and Peter Boyles continuing to beat the drum on KHOW this morning. Yes, the program that's the target of this last-second change,...

By Patricia CalhounMay 17, 2010

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Concern over the legislature’s last-second changes to the bill that continues the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board is growing, with an editorial in the Denver Post on Saturday and Peter Boyles continuing to beat the drum on KHOW this morning.

Yes, the program that’s the target of this last-second change, Teaching Humane Existence, is controversial, as this Westword story from 2002 makes clear. But T.H.E. director Greig Veeder is hardly the only expert upset over this behind-closed-doors maneuver that will allow sex-offenders to choose between three treatment options.

Listen, and learn.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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