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Since 2018, Colorado Freedom Fund and our team's advocacy has been covered in local, national, and even documentary media.

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    They’re in custody and facing jail. Why isn’t Grand Junction’s municipal court providing them attorneys?

    Oct 7, 2024

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  • Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition President Steve Zansberg presents Ouray County Plaindealer publishers Mike Wiggins and Erin McIntyre with the nonprofit's Jean Otto Friend of Freedom award on Friday night. Photo courtesy Thomas Cooper, Light

    Publishers honored with Friend of Freedom Award

    OURAY NEWS | Aug 28, 2024

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  • Man sitting on steps

    How Pueblo weaponizes contempt of court to inflate jail time

    DENVER POST | Jul 24, 2024

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    Colorado lawmakers prepare to relaunch criminal justice commission amidst skepticism from reformers

    DENVER POST | April 13, 2024

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  • Car with driver holding phone

    Colorado is close to outlawing all hand-held cellphone use behind the wheel after lawmakers pass bill

    DENVER POST | May 8, 2024

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  • Yohannese Gebremedhin holds a photo of his uncle, Goitom Hagos, in the Centennial home Hagos and Gebremedhin’s aunt shared before Hagos was killed while driving for a rideshare company. Feb. 16, 2024.

    How Colorado issues bonds and assesses suspect risk can endanger communities. Is there a better way?

    CPR | Mar 5, 2024

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  • Amy Padden is the Democratic nominee for DA in the new 18th Judicial District

    A New Boundary Sends Suburban Colorado Down Opposite Paths on Prosecution

    BOLTS | July 8, 2024

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  • Shortsfest documentary ‘How We Get Free’ tracks activist politician’s battle to end bail

    ASPEN TIMES | Apr 8, 2023

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  • Colorado residents turned out at the state Capitol in Denver to protest safe-at-home orders spurred by the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro)

    Mandate for remote access to criminal court proceedings clears hurdle in Colorado

    COURTHOUSE NEWS | April 6, 2023

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  • Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse in downtown Denver

    Criminal courts livestreaming bill advances in Colorado legislature

    CFOIC | April 6, 2023

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  • Taj Ashaheed, Department of Corrections programs development manager at the Second Chance Center, speaks at a rally against re-felonizing drug possession at the Colorado State Capitol building on April 26, 2022.

    Fentanyl law’s proponents and foes prepare for criminal justice fallout

    COLORADO NEWSLINE | June 3, 2022

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  • Handcuffs

    Denver Data Doesn't Back Mayor's Claim That PR Bonds Are Leading to More Crime

    Westword | May 26, 2022

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  • The Aurora Municipal Court building is pictured Jan. 14, 2022

    Court text reminders would become automatic under proposed state law

     COLORADO NEWSLINE | JANUARY 18, 2022

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  • Rebecca wallace in a blue shirt arms crossed

    Guest Opinion: Rebecca Wallace: Speaking truth about SB62

    DAILY CAMERA | April 19, 2021

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  • Bail bonds sign lit up at night

    Senate panel votes down mandatory cash bail for repeat, violent offenders

    COLORADO POLITICS | Mar 2, 2022

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  • The Aurora Municipal Court building is pictured

    Bill would extend 48-hour bond hearings law to municipal courts

    COLORADO NEWSLINE | Feb 14, 2022

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  • Elisabeth Epps watches as Rep. Leslie Herod makes the case for HB-1226 on the state House floor, April 19, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) Elisabeth Epps watches as Rep. Leslie Herod makes the case for HB-1226 on the state House floor, April 19, 201

    Elisabeth Epps, abolitionist and bail reformist, is running to represent part of Denver at the State Capitol

    DENVERITE | Dec 2, 2021

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  • urora police officers investigate the scene of an early afternoon shooting at Nome Park near Aurora Central High School on Nov. 15, 2021.

    How to address Colorado’s violent crime increase? It’s more complicated than many want it to be.

    DENVER POST | Nov 21, 2021

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  • Rebecca Wallace with her arms crossed wearing a blue shirt and a necklace. courtesy ACLU of Colorado

    Colorado Freedom Fund taps former ACLU attorney Rebecca Wallace to lead policy efforts

    COLORADO POLITICS | Sep 30, 2021

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  • Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Clark walks down the stairs of module 4A in the new jail expansion project at the detention center on Friday, February 8, 2002.

    Which crime suspects should be booked into jail? Which should pay bail? Colorado lawmakers could decide this year.

    DENVER POST | Mar 5, 2021

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  • Westminster Police officers arrest a young man who was stopped and found to have an open warrant for shoplifting,

    Effort To Ensure Bond Hearings Within 48 Hours Of Arrest Moving Forward At Capitol

    CPR | May 5, 2021

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  • Denver School Board member Tay Anderson, left, and Elisabeth Epps from the Colorado Freedom Fund stop in front of East High School and address their support for Senate Bill 20-217 that is before the Colorado Legislature. The two joined Denver Public

    Bail abolitionist Elisabeth Epps wins public service award from UVA Law

    COLORADO POLITICS | Feb 16, 2021

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  • Samuel Bouknight outside his home on Aug. 12, 2020. Bouknight was scored using a risk assessment tool and later had to meet strict pretrial supervision requirements upon his release from jail, costing him time and money.

    Bias against Black people found in Colorado bail reform tool

    COLORADO NEWSLINE | Oct 8, 2020

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  • Announcing CREEC’s 2020 Award Winner – Elisabeth Epps

    CREEC | Aug 24, 2020

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  • Bail Funds, Flush With Cash, Learn to ‘Grind Through This Horrible Process’

    NEW YORK TIMES | Jun 26, 2020

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  • Natalia Marshall, the niece of the late Michael Marshall, speaks during a Jan. 6 press conference announcing the "Bring Our Neighbors Home" campaign for pretrial justice. Her daughters Navee (left) and Elizabeth (right) stand with her, as she recalls

    ACLU sets forth ‘Bring Our Neighbors Home’ campaign for pretrial justice

    COLORADO POLITICS | Jan 23, 2020

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  • Inside Denver's downtown detention center.

    Court Watch Colorado begins work ensuring justice reforms are followed

    DENVERITE | Aug 12, 2019

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  • Denver District Attorney Beth McCann during a Jan. 27, 2020 press conference at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building

    Denver DA’s office: 'We have done all we can’ to reduce jail population, as COVID-19 cases spike in downtown detention center

    COLORADO POLITICS | May 7, 2020

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  • A view of the outside of the maximum security Colorado state penitentiary in Canon City, Colo.

    Swath of legislation reforming Colorado’s criminal justice system to affect tens of thousands

    DENVER POST | May 7, 2019

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  • Rep. Leslie Herod and Elisabeth Epps speak to press after Governor Polis signed a bill outlawing cash bail, April 25, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

    Imposing cash bail for minor offenses is no longer an option in Colorado

    DENVERITE | April 25, 2019

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  • A two-man cell currently being occupied by three men at the Pueblo County Detention Center on Wednesday, December 6, 2017

    Bill eliminating cash bail for minor crimes in Colorado awaits governor’s signature after unanimous support in legislature

    DENVER POST | Apr 8, 2019

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  • Ashley Butler was in the Costilla County Jail for a month because she couldn’t post her $1,200 bond.

    Defendants Outnumber The Convicted In San Luis And Other Crowded Rural Jails

    CPR | Mar 28, 2019

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  • Natalia Marshall, the niece of Michael Marshall, who was killed in the Denver jail. (Photo by John Herrick)

    Colorado could limit jail time and bail for poorest defendants

    COLORADO INDEPENDENT | March 14, 2019

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  • screenshot of newcaster Kyle Clark

    Q&A: Abolitionist Elisabeth Epps on day 14 of her jail sentence

    9 NEWS | Feb 6, 2019

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  • Elisabeth Epps poses for a portrait in front of the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center downtown,

    Advocates claim victory as Denver Sheriff Department says it will waive a contested jail fee for new detainees

    Denverite | October 18, 2018

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  • Star icon with the word Features under it on a blue background

    Colorado Eyes Changes to Bail System

    COLORADO LAW REVIEW | Sep 10, 2018

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  • Inmates sleep on the floor of the dormitories at the Pueblo County Jail.

    Colorado’s Jails Are Deeply Overcrowded. What’s Being Done?

    CPR | March 22, 2018

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  • Columns of the courthouse

    Colorado’s Bail System

    DENVER CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER | Mar 15, 2018

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  • Presiding Aurora Judge Shawn Day has gotten rid of a lot of cash bonds in his courtrooms. He doesn’t think it’s constitutional to hold people in jail, before a trial, when they can’t afford to get out.

    Local Judges Are Driving Bail Reforms Across Colorado

    CPR | Jan 203, 2018

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