The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee advanced bills requiring social media platforms to comply with search warrants within 72 hours and mandating minimum sentences for purchasing children for sex, while killing a parenting-time restoration bill opposed by major survivor organizations and passing an attorney-client privilege clarification for state auditor fraud investigations.
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Chair Weissman drafted L002 to protect minor trafficking victims from prosecution but did not move it after the organization representing district attorneys was 'pretty vigorously in opposition.' Senator Wallace countered that DAs who testified the bill would not target survivors then 'ensure[d] happen that immunity for survivors was taken out,' asking 'I struggle with why that protection wouldn't have been important to them.' Senator Henrickson voted no on the bill specifically because agreement on L002 could not be reached.
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“This bill proposes a mandatory minimum sentence because we are talking about one of the most severe crimes imaginable. Mandatory minimums should never be used lightly. But there are crimes where the harm is so extreme and the victim is so vulnerable that the state has a duty to establish a baseline of accountability. Right now, that baseline is probation, and that is a slap in the face to the children that we are all elected to protect.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt. Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order on Wednesday, 11th February. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll call. Senators Carson. John. Senators Carson. Here. Frizzell. Here. Henriksen. Here. Snyder. Here. Wallace. Here. Roberts. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's present. Thank you, everyone. Welcome as council guest members again, Senator Snyder and Senator Frazelle. All right, our agenda today is to take back up for action only Senate Bill 15. Having had a full hearing on Monday, we will then proceed to full hearings of 11, 37, 73 and 84. So where we had left off with Senate Bill 15, as a reminder, we had completed witness testimony and closed the witness phase. We had not yet gotten into amendments because there was some flux in what amendments might or might not be offered. At that point, we will now proceed to the amendment phase, and I will invite the sponsors to let us know about any amendments they would like the committee to consider. Mr. Vice Chair. Thank you. Mr. Chair. I move L001. Okay. Proper motion. Members, just to confirm, everybody should have a hard copy of L1. Shoot up a hand if…
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