Colorado Springs Law Enforcement Commission calls on city to expand mental health services
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) The Colorado Springs Law Enforcement Transparency & Accountability Commission is prepared to make its first recommendation to Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor John Suthers.
According to JJ Frazier, the chairwoman of the Colorado Springs Law Enforcement Transparency & Accountability Commission, the first recommendation focuses on mental health and the Crisis Response Team s (CRT) in Colorado Springs. Our recommendation is to expand the city s use of Crisis Response Team s to meet the needs of the city of Colorado Springs, Frazier told KRDO.
Colorado Springs currently has four Crisis Response Teams. Each made up of a paramedic, a clinician, a firefighter, and Police Officer. The commission acknowledges that the city has taken step to improve the program, expanding it three times since 2014.
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Colorado’s political future, at least for the next 10 years, might be decided by three retired judges in the coming days. This panel of retired judges is overseeing the appointment of the 12 members to the Legislative Redistricting Commission. It’s an unenviable job. By picking dedicated, fair-minded citizens, Colorado will become the envy of redistricting reforms across the nation. Skew the appointments toward one party or the other, and Colorado’s reform efforts will be viewed as a failure.
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The Colorado Springs Law Enforcement Transparency and Accountability Commission (LETAC) held the first in a series of listening and learning sessions Tuesday, Jan. 19. The sessions are organized around one