Gov. Jared Polis signed into law Friday morning a bevy of new gun regulations that advocates hope will tamp down on gun violence in the state and had opponents pledging to sue over as soon as his pen hit the paper.
Colorado would guarantee the right of Native American students to wear items such as eagle feathers and other traditional clothing at graduation ceremonies through a bill under consideration this year. The Native American Rights Fund receives many calls every spring from families across the country looking for support on how to ensure they can wear regalia at graduation ceremonies, said Matthew Campbell, the organization’s deputy director. Colorado would join eight other states in ensuring Native American students can wear traditional regalia.
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Colorado House Democratic leadership is looking into physical force used by security staff against a group of students who’d come to the Capitol as part of a gun reform protest.