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Sex offenders offered hope of redemption in new law

A bipartisan agreement designed by members of the Senate to give hope to sex offenders entering into state required treatment passed on 2nd reading Thursday. Likened to the entrance into the Hades of Dante’s Inferno by one member of the Senate, the existing law, until its sunset, asked the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board to treat sex crimes as a disease with “no known cure.” That section has now been removed and states sex offenses are often repetitive but in some cases are the result of a manageable condition.

Boyles, Veeder wrong about Foster sex offender bill

Yesterday on KHOW's Peter Boyles show, Boyles guest Greig Veeder, executive director of a group called No Known Cure, said that a new House...