Despite repeated reports on the risks associated with "sexting," the sharing of sexually explicit photos and text messages by cellphone, the practice is still common among our high school and middle school students. This past Tuesday, Douglas County Sheriff's deputies served search warrants at Chaparral High School. Deputies took at least four students' cellphones.
The Colorado Supreme Court has just ruled that conversations between children and the attorneys who represent them in custody and neglect cases are not protected by attorney-client privilege. The decision is being called a landmark one by child advocates, but the question of whether it better protects the children is still being debated.
A U.S. jury has awarded $3 million to a Bahamian student in a lawsuit claim arising from a local jet-ski incident -- a case that could change global manufacturing of the watercraft. A jury in a U.S. District Court in Savannah, Georgia on August 9 ruled that manufacturer Kawasaki was to pay a 26-year-old student for injuries she suffered in a jet-ski accident in 2006.
Beginning today, car-seat requirements in Colorado are providing safer travel for the smallest in our state. A new state requirement being enforced Aug. 1 raises the car-seat requirement to age 8. Previously, children have had to be in car seats through age 6.
The Colorado 2012 ballot may include a proposal for legalizing marijuana, but local activist Douglas Bruce has brought a legal challenge against the proposal. Bruce, of Colorado Springs, argues the proposal to make pot legal for adults over 21 doesn't properly say that it would raise taxes.
