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| Colorado Springs Rep.'s bill aimed at youth corrections facilities |
| By gazette.com- Megan Schrader |
| Published: 03/06/2015 |
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DENVER - A bill to open for public scrutiny reports of incidents like rapes and assaults at the state's youth detention facilities cleared its first committee hearing Thursday as lawmakers work to make the Department of Youth Corrections more transparent and accountable. The department is exempt in state statue from the Colorado Open Records Act, and both lawmakers and journalists alike were frustrated by the lack of openness last summer amid reports that one of the department's facilities, Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado Springs, had become unsafe for both juveniles housed there and the staff and teachers working there. "It's been a challenge to really drill down and find out exactly what's going on at Spring Creek because of the limitation of release of information," Rep. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, said. "We were talking all last spring, summer and fall about how to make modifications in the law to enable us to really perform the governance and oversight function." Read More. |
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