Add the following subsection to CRS 18-1.3-801:

 

(2.6)  THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS (1.5) AND (2)(A) SHALL NOT APPLY TO A CONVICTION OF FELONY ESCAPE PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-8-208(1), (2) AND (3) OR FOR A CONVICTION OF ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-8-208.1(1), (1.5) AND (2) UNLESS THE PLACE OF CUSTODY OR CONFINEMENT IS A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 17-1-104.3 OR FROM INSIDE A COUNTY JAIL FACILITY OR FROM TRANSPORT IN PHYSICAL CUSTODY.  

Consolidate the Drug Offender Surcharge Cash Fund (to include the H.B.1352 general fund appropriation) and the Drug Treatment Fund (created in S.B.03-318) into a single fund (Correctional Treatment Cash Fund). In addition, consolidate the three oversight bodies into a single decision making body.

Public safety requires that drivers not be impaired from alcohol, cannabis, or any other medication or drug, while operating a motor vehicle.

Government entities should expand and improve efforts to collect and share data related to drugged driving and traffic fatalities with the purpose of producing a single annual report on the characteristics of all drivers (living and dead) involved in fatality crashes.

Increase the number of Drug Recognition Experts (DREs) ensuring sufficient coverage in rural and frontier areas of the state.

A strong public education campaign that focuses on disseminating information to dispensary owners, customers and the public is a priority to enhance public safety on the roadways.

School boards to provide education and materials to juvenile detention facilities as outlined in the Colorado model content standard* by revising CRS 19-2-402(3)(a) as follows:

The school boards of the school districts that a juvenile detention facility serves or in which the juvenile detention facility is located shall satisfy the requirements as defined by C.R.S. 22-33-104** and shall furnish teachers, materials, and content that are designed to meet the Colorado model content standards.

 

*A brief explanation of such standards can be found at http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/.

**C.R.S. 22-33-104 as amended is commonly known as the Compulsory School Attendance Law.

Modify legislation to include gender and minority data in all fiscal notes written for criminal justice bills.

Commission legislative recommendations shall include a minority impact statement.

Clarify and create in statute the registration requirement for and self-verification by sex offenders who "Lack a Fixed Residence."*

 

Individuals from, but not limited to, the Sex Offender Management Board, the Judicial Department, law enforcement, the Department of Corrections, and the EPIC project* shall collaborate to develop and provide a uniform curriculum of sex offender training modules that could be offered to various groups (supervising officers, treatment providers, community corrections staff, State Board of Parole, judges, legislators, law enforcement, etc.). It is anticipated that training could be offered more frequently and consistently through this collaborative effort to address such topics as information on the Lifetime Supervision Act, an overview of the SOMB standards, motivational interviewing, and trauma informed treatment.

 

*The Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Capacity project would require funding to continue beyond its current funding conclusion date. See cdpsweb.state.co.us/cccjj/epic.html.

A committee shall be created including, but not limited to, representatives from the Department of Corrections, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Division of Criminal justice, and the Judicial Branch, to evaluate and improve the consistency of data collected across agencies to facilitate the study of the impact of the Lifetime Supervision Act. The collaborating agencies should identify and resolve the gaps and inconsistencies in electronic databases. The agencies shall review and provide recommendations to improve the annual Lifetime Supervision Report by July 1, 2012.

Support funding an enhanced per diem differential ($33.02) for community corrections programs that house sex offenders and that applies to specialized programming for Diversion, Transition, Condition of Probation and Condition of Parole clients.

Charge the refinement working group of the sex offense/offender task force or a succeeding group as designated by the CCJJ to work in collaboration with, but not limited to, the Division of Criminal Justice, the Department of Corrections, and Probation, to study the potential, long-term cost savings related to the placement of sex offenders in community corrections (with enhanced per diem) relative to the costs of the retention of sex offenders in or revocation of sex offenders to doc. This work must be completed by January 1, 2012.

 

*Colorado Association of Community Corrections Boards

**Governor's Community Corrections Advisory Council

Support funding for the Division of Parole in the Department of Corrections to negotiate an increase in the number of beds in Community Corrections agencies and programs to house condition of parole sex offenders for residential sex offender treatment.

Increase treatment resources at DOC.