Northglenn's city manager Heather Geyer said she felt left out of conversations about a state-proposed facility that plans to house people with mental illnesses.
Colorado lawmakers hope to improve the state's long-troubled competency system by creating a statewide program aimed at moving mentally ill defendants out of criminal courts and into mental health care.
Colorado Department of Human Services wants to house people with severe mental illness including sex offenders in Northglenn near schools and playgrounds, causing neighbors to try to stop it.
Colorado lawmakers hope to improve the state's long-troubled competency system by creating a statewide program aimed at moving mentally ill defendants out of criminal courts and into mental health care.
Colorado lawmakers hope to improve the state's long-troubled competency system by creating a statewide program aimed at moving mentally ill defendants out of criminal courts and into mental health care.