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Sex and gender data limits clear Denver committee 5-0, heads to full council
Rocky Mountain Voice, Local, Top Stories

Sex and gender data limits clear Denver committee 5-0, heads to full council

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Kevin Flynn asked the question two different ways on two different days. What data does Denver collect or share now that it wouldn't under this ordinance? By the time the committee voted, he had one narrow answer about collection and none about sharing. "What are we doing today that under this ordinance we will no longer be doing?" the Southwest Denver councilman asked Monday, when the Sex and Gender Identity Protection Ordinance came before the Budget and Policy Committee for a briefing. "I'm having trouble understanding or visualizing it." He tried again Wednesday, when the same bill reached the Health and Safety Committee for a vote. He said he was "surprised to learn that we're sharing this information with anybody...
Three laws, one result: A federal suit says Colorado and Denver leave some visitors no way to carry
Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

Three laws, one result: A federal suit says Colorado and Denver leave some visitors no way to carry

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice He says he passed a background check stricter than Colorado's. He holds a carry permit that is good in more than 30 states. He owns a second home in Weld County. And when Greg Howeth applied for a Colorado permit this spring, a Weld County employee called to tell him no — because he does not have a Colorado ID. That denial, delivered by email on May 28, is now Exhibit 2 in a federal lawsuit against the City and County of Denver, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, and five other officials.  Howeth, a South Carolina man named Zackary Dougherty, and the National Rifle Association filed the case in U.S. District Court in Denver on Aug. 12. Their claim is not that any single Colorado law is unconstitutional. It ...