Joint Judiciary
In the first of a three-day SMART Act marathon, the Joint Judiciary Committee heard budget and program briefings from the Departments of Law and Public Safety and a slate of oversight boards — with Attorney General Phil Weiser making what several members called his likely final appearance, and a recurring, combustible fight over a claimed '98% error rate' in offender risk assessments running through multiple panels.
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“There are people living in Colorado, man, in El Paso county, who bought homes, who have kids in schools, and they're now pawns in what is a effort not to do what's best for America, but an effort to try to bully Colorado.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe committee will come to order. Ms. Jensen, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Bacon. Excused. Carson. Carter. Excused. Clifford. Here. Doherty. Excused. Be online. Espinoza. Lano. Garcia. Excused. Henriksen. Here. Kelty. Excused. Robert. Excused. Slaw. Excused. Soper. Excused. Wallace. I see Wallace and Roberts. Okay, joining us. Put them on. Zamora. Wilson. Here. Zokai. Here. Wiseman. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, members, welcome to our three day marathon of Smart act hearings with the Joint Judiciary Committee. We are already running a little bit behind schedule on time and I want to recognize that I know this committee will have lots of questions as we go through the process. In the interest of making sure that everybody is heard and that the process is as fair as possible, we're going to do one question per member with one follow up, unless, you know, we don't have takers and we have more time to go around. We're going to start with the State Auditor's office, but before we kick off. Chair Weissman, anything to add? Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, members, we do want to be respectful of everyone's time who will be coming before us…
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