The House Judiciary Committee advanced HB 1020 — targeting wrongful arrests from unreliable colorimetric field drug tests — unanimously to the committee of the whole, while laying over HB 26-1039 (municipal jail oversight) for action only amid unresolved disputes over pregnant-persons protections and a definition of 'municipal jail.'
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Owen Brigner (CML) argued that requiring a pregnant person in labor to be released on a personal reconnaissance bond without any conditions is 'further and more burdensome and more restrictive on municipal jails than it is on county jails,' calling for 'true parity.' Rep. Clifford pushed back, noting municipalities deal only with low-level misdemeanors and questioned why a municipality would want to hold a person through birthing and incur all associated medical costs, asking Brigner whether Aurora would be 'okay with maintaining all of the medical costs, making sure that the birth happens.' Brigner responded that if public safety requires holding someone on a municipal charge for up to 364 days, 'that would be a cost they'd be willing to take on.'
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“When someone is arrested based on false positive drug tests, they face an impossible choice. Assert their innocence and spend months in jail awaiting laboratory confirmation, or plead guilty to a crime they didn't commit to return to their families and responsibilities.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Excused. Flinell. Flannel. Garcia. L.T. here. Slaw. Here. Soper. Here. It's okay, Carter. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, members, we got a few bills, three bills today. We are waiting on Rep. Ricks to come over, so stand by for Rep. Ricks to get here and then we will start with House Bill 1039. Okay, members, we're gonna get started. We have both bill sponsors here. All right, so just at the outset, I had a conversation with one of the sponsors about they're gonna. We're gonna introduce the bill, we're gonna do testimony, and after that we're gonna lay it over for action only. So just a heads up to committee members and bill sponsors, whoever would like to start maybe again, Vice Chair Carter. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Basically this bill is the purpose of this bill. Specifically right now there are about three different type of facilities where in which an individual can be detained or held. There is a. You can be held in a detention facility where in which the purpose of a detention facility is to hold…
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