Author: David Migoya
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Bill banning governments from forcing employees to sign NDAs heads to Polis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado governments of all types will no longer be allowed to press their employees into signing confidentiality agreements under a bill headed to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk. With some exceptions, Senate Bill 23-53 prohibits state, county, and municipal governments, as well as school districts, from…
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Colorado lawmakers kill effort to stop metro district developers from buying own bonds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Less than a month after it passed the state House — and a week after that chamber approved a competing measure — a bill that sought to stop metropolitan district developers from buying municipal bonds they or their affiliates approved for sale while serving on the community’s…
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Colorado legislators advance bill to stop metro district developers from buying own financing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Proposed legislation that aims to stop metro district developers from buying and profiting from the public debt they approved as a district’s board members narrowly cleared a state House committee on Tuesday. It is the second time in as many years that a bill looking…
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Discipline commission told Supreme Court justices they had conflict of interest in investigation and should recuse; they haven’t
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At least six of Colorado’s Supreme Court justices — including its Chief Justice Brian Boatright and incoming Chief Justice Monica Marquez — have known about conflicts of interest they allegedly have with ongoing disciplinary investigations into the conduct of at least two of their colleagues but have done nothing…
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Senator says Polis personally profited from legislation he signed and used his office for financial gain, calls for inquiry
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A state senator has called for an investigation into whether Gov. Jared Polis personally profited from legislation he signed, including Colorado’s legalized sports books, and whether state agencies have furthered promoted his real estate interests, The Denver Gazette has learned. In a stinging 6-page letter…
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Proposed sweeping changes to judicial discipline process would need public approval
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado judges who face formal charges of misconduct would face a public trial rather than a secret one, which has been the norm for decades, according to a number of sweeping preliminary recommendations made Wednesday by an interim legislative committee reviewing changes to judicial discipline.…
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Colorado’s former top Judicial Department official stands by assertions that agency is protecting ‘the robes’
In his first public comments since alleging the Colorado Supreme Court three years ago approved a contract-for-silence with a former Judicial Department executive, Christopher Ryan stood firmly behind his assertions that wide-ranging efforts ensued to “protect the actions of those who wear the robes.” Testifying Wednesday before a temporary legislative committee exploring changes to the…
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State court administrator admits he ‘missed’ discipline advisory and allowed ‘hairy chest’ jurist into senior judge program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado State Court Administrator Steven Vasconcellos on Tuesday said he overlooked the discipline record of a retiring district court judge when he approved the jurist’s application for the senior judge program in 2018, then recently admonished the state’s judicial discipline commission for not telling the…
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Discipline commission says state court administrator falsely accused it of withholding information
Colorado’s state court administrator – the highest civilian position in the Judicial Department – last year falsely claimed judicial discipline officials failed to reveal they had admonished a district court judge of misbehavior before the judge was admitted to a senior judge program, the state’s discipline commission said in a letter filed Monday with legislators.…
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Judicial Discipline Commission says Supreme Court lied, misled, misinformed public during probe
On July 29, 2021, the chief justice of Colorado’s Supreme Court quietly met in a Denver parking garage with the executive director of the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline to discuss the latter’s press for information in its inquiry into misconduct allegations tied to an alleged contract-for-silence scheme at the Judicial Department. During the rendezvous,…