“We have a real lack of any kind of interface between our 215 municipal courts and the statewide court data system.” — Rep. Marc Snyder
Colorado’s municipal courts have for years operated like islands — each town with its own rules and its own system for keeping track of court cases, separate from the system for the state’s county and district courts.
But a bill advancing through the state legislature might build bridges between those islands. Colorado lawmakers want to create a task force to examine how to share data between municipal courts and the state’s county and district courts. “We have a real lack of any kind of interface between our 215 municipal courts and the statewide court data system,” said Rep. Marc Snyder, a Democrat representing El Paso and Teller counties who is one of the sponsors ofThe bill, which passed the Colorado House of Representatives on Monday and is next headed to the Senate, would bring together state and local officials in a task force to study the issue for at least six months before presenting findings to lawmakers in January 2024.
Connecting municipal courts to each other and to state and county courts would make it easier for judges, defense attorneys and prosecutors to check defendants’ criminal histories, review bond and probation conditions, and ultimately make better-informed decisions in cases, said Shawn Day, presiding judge of Aurora Municipal Court.
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