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The Communications Officer advances the ACLU of Colorado’s strategic priorities by effectively articulating its mission through various platforms.

Yesterday, Governor Jared Polis granted commutations to three people including Ronald Johnson and Rogel Aguilera-Mederos. The Governor additionally granted 1,351 pardons to people with convictions related to the possession of marijuana.

It would make Colorado less safe, and be a grave mistake, to double down on “tough on crime” practices that have caused intergenerational harm, financial loss, and damage to Colorado’s families.

Miko McMahon-Piel is a Denver student and artist.

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“Two years after Elijah Jovan McClain, a 23-year-old African American, a beloved brother and son, a massage therapist and gifted violinist, died at the hands of Aurora police and first responders, two of the three police officers directly involved in his death still work at the department.

As a child, the March on Washington was my first realization of “the movement” — something that every adult I knew was talking about and engaged in.

ACLU of Colorado recently launched an initiative, Expanding the Table for Justice (ETFJ), to gather input from people throughout Colorado and get a clear understanding of what problems occur in our state’s local communities as they relate to civil rights and civil liberties.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in our lawsuit against the Douglas County School District, Douglas County Sheriff, and School Resource Officers for aggressively handcuffing and arresting an 11-year-old child with autism.