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Pueblo leaders weigh response to state bill that would curb municipal failure-to-appear charges
Summary
City staff alerted council on Feb. 3 that Senate Bill 25-062 would bar municipal failure-to-appear charges and limit contempt authority; staff and the Colorado Municipal League recommended seeking an amendment rather than outright support or opposition, and a city letter is being circulated for signatures.
Brian McCain, the mayor’s chief of staff, briefed the Pueblo City Council at its Feb. 3 work session on Senate Bill 25-062, introduced by state Sen. Nick Henriksen, which would prohibit a person’s failure to appear from forming the basis of a municipal criminal charge and would bar municipal judges from imposing jail time for that failure to appear.
Why it matters: The change would limit a municipal court’s current tools for sanctioning repeated, willful failures to appear, a practice McCain said has been used repeatedly in Pueblo municipal court.…
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