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A year after passing a sweeping police accountability bill with bipartisan support, it s a very different climate for criminal justice reform at the Capitol this year.
Amid a flurry of police brutality protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, criminal justice reform advocates at the Colorado legislature seized the moment last summer and passed one of the most sweeping police reform laws in the country.
Advocates and lawmakers hoped to nudge those efforts forward this year introducing a series of criminal justice bills that could further overhaul how police officers do their jobs, liberalize laws on when people have to go to jail and make it easier to let people out of prison.
Colorado courts may be forced to hold bond hearings within 48 hours of arrests
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