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Senate Judiciary heard emotional testimony on House Bill 1123, the jail sexual-abuse prevention bill spurred by the La Plata County case, then laid it over for amendments after sheriffs pressed for changes. Senate Bill 96 was pulled from the day's docket.
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·Preventing Sexual Abuse in JailsNo vote
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“Aber then downloaded these recordings to personal devices where he viewed videos of 117 female inmates at least 3,166 times.”
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Good afternoon, everybody. Senate Judiciary will come to order on Wednesday 8th April. Ms. Jensen, please call the roll. Senators Carson Doherty. Excused. Henriksen. Excused. Wallace. President Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, quorum is present. Just to note, our agenda had previously been on the docket for today. That is going to be heard instead at another time. We are also not taking up Senate Bill 96 today. That will be before the committee at another point, which makes our sole item of business Today, House Bill 1123. I will be co presenting that with Senator Amabile. For that reason, Senator Roberts will be presiding as chair and I will pass him the gavel. Okay. Good afternoon. We are here to hear testimony on House Bill 1123 by Senators Amabile and Weissman, who are before us. Who would like to start? Senator Amabile? I'll start because I always like to do the emotional appeal and then turn it over to somebody else to do the actual technical parts. So I'll start with why the bill, and I don't know if you all heard about this case in La Plata county where the sheriff was found…
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