Lawmakers give bill to reform Colorado’s secretive judicial discipline system a “significant overhaul”

Colorado lawmakers advanced a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming the state’s system for disciplining judges Thursday after making numerous changes to the original proposal. Here's a look at the revised bill.

passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously after the bill’s sponsors in the Senate said the three major players in the effort — the Colorado Judicial Department, the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, and the lawmakers — were able to work together to reach a consensus.

The revised bill now reduces the amount of information that the Judicial Department will have to provide the Commission on Judicial Discipline regarding complaints about judges, and enshrines some confidentiality — but requires the Judicial Department to provide an explanation and summary of information it withholds from the commission.

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