huge win by the folks at gratalegal.com (including @williamsdan303.bsky.social)!

great work @williamsdan303.bsky.social taking this case in Boulder and setting a statewide precedent in Colorado for access to police body camera footage

LFG!

if you are a student who was banned, or know one who was, reach out. i would be happy to represent you in a civil rights suit. this is outrageous.

10/10

Ducking the meeting won’t make Aurora safer from police abuses. Aurora Council needs to take this issue head on

Headline five more big law firms sell out

So much insight into the values of the various big law firms

How did a country that boasts so loudly about freedom and democracy become the world’s biggest arsenal and is that the legacy we want to leave for another generation?

If you’re a journalist or lawmaker still planning to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner after WHCA cancelled Amber Ruffin to placate a petty tyrant, you need to dig deep and ask yourself why you’re really still going because it sure as hell isn’t to celebrate the First Amendment.

Addressing Risks From WilmerHale By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Background.

Retaliating against lawyers for challenging govt action is taking a sledgehammer to the rule of law. Lawyers need to stand up loudly in protest even if they face personal risk. It’s our duty to all those clients who have entrusted us with the honor of practicing law in the first place

What could be the difference between Judge Reyes and Hegseth that could account for different standards being applied?

Seeing both the Paul Weiss law firm and Columbia University bend the knee on the same day is so disheartening

Seeing 34,000 people show up in Denver is so encouraging

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

Statement from Boulder Progressives opposing Colorado HB25-1208 - Local Governments Tip Offsets for Tipped Employees — Boulder Progressives We are deeply troubled that HB 25-1208 is an end-run by business owners on the careful compromises that were struck, to the detriment of hardworking hourly employees in tipped positions in Boulder, Boulder County, Denver, and Edgewater.

"In four local jurisdictions, people supporting the needs of low-wage employees worked hard with their local leaders to raise the minimum wage, striking the right balance between workers and owners of businesses for their individual communities."

Why a Wealthy Community Sees So Many People in Need - Yellow Scene Magazine When we live in affluent areas, people seem to think that there are no people in need, struggling in poverty. We do our best to keep people like this out

“At any given time in Boulder, we have around 500 more unhoused people than we have beds to serve them,” explains BP board member Lisa Sweeney-Miran, CEO of local homeless shelter and outreach program Haven Ridge.

When Lethal Force Becomes the Default: The Death of Jeannette Alatorre - Yellow Scene Magazine Jeannette Alatorre’s death ignites a legal battle as local media and next of kin challenge Boulder’s handling of the fatal encounter and its commitment to

In local news, in Dec 2023 Boulder Police shot a homeless woman 9x. YS had to sue to get the videos released. We won. Here is what we saw in the officer involved killing of Jeannette Alatorre. #policeshootings #bouldercolorado

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This is a bill a Pennsylvania man named Chad received in the mail a few days after being released from the county jail in Harrisburg.

It tells quite a story:

Hoping for speedy justice for these amazing students

Great to see these CU students standing up for justice

How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:

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I was going to go to the socialist bookstore but I realized I could go to the library instead.

So proud of my client @yellowscenemag.bsky.social for being such a media rights champion

City of Boulder Files Appeal: Police Accountability Law Faces Legal Challenge - Yellow Scene Magazine The fight over body camera footage continues as Boulder questions Colorado’s Transparency Act in the Colorado Court of Appeals. In December of 2023,

In April of 2024, Yellow Scene Magazine filed a lawsuit against the City of Boulder. The court ruled in favor of YS.

Today, the City of Boulder filed an appeal of this decision on two issues.

#policeaccountability

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Who are we as a country that we tolerate this year after year after year?

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Check out our Starter Pack for a list of people who founded, worked on, or heavily supported Bedrooms Are For People in Boulder, Colorado!

If you helped us out and want to be included here, send us a note - thanks!

One of the NYPD brass said “this isn’t blue bloods” when explaining they can’t just immediately find the guy and I like that years of copaganda have set standards cops can’t meet and might be contributing to people’s correct perception that cops don’t effectively stop crime or find killers.

Somewhat burnt turkey

It’s what’s on the inside that counts

The City of Boulder wanted to charge us $3000 for the bodycam footage. @williamsdan303.bsky.social
helped us win that case. We are now able to view the footage and report on what we saw.