Tag: Aurora City Council
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Aurora City Council votes to create police oversight office
Aurora’s councilmembers voted unanimously Monday to create the Office of Public Safety Accountability to oversee the police department. The council will cast a final vote on the ordinance creating the office at the next council meeting and city officials will begin hiring after final approval, a city spokesperson said. The oversight office, as outlined in…
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Aurora City Councilmember Andrews pleads guilty to DUI
Aurora City Councilmember Rob Andrews pleaded guilty to a DUI charge on Tuesday and was sentenced to 10 days of at-home detention, 12 months of probation, and 48 hours of community service. Andrews, elected to the City Council in November, was pulled over on Jan. 17 and arrested on suspicion of a DUI, the Aurora…
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New Aurora council micromanages, muzzles cops | Jimmy Sengenberger
“You haven’t looked up one f*cking time this whole night, you useless f*ck.” The profane words of a holier-than-thou activist rang out like an incensed teenager at Monday’s meeting of the Aurora City Council. (https://tinyurl.com/3dfc6kt6) The difference? Petulant children like far-left activist Jeff McFarland now hold sway in Aurora. As the council prepared to pass a policy muzzling…
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Aurora eyes raising taxes to pay for infrastructure projects
Aurora voters could decide this November whether to raise sales taxes for the first time since 1993 to help pay for infrastructure, transportation and public safety improvements. The city’s Infrastructure Task Force recommended that the City Council approve a bond program supported by sales and use tax increases to fund Build Up Aurora projects. On…
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Aurora City Council votes to create police social media policy to bar ‘editorializing’
The Aurora City Council voted to alter social media policies for the Aurora Police Department on Monday night to bar department officials from posting mug shots and suspect names until a suspect is convicted or pleads guilty. The resolution, which passed with four “no” votes, directs the city manager to develop a social media policy…
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Aurora council moves forward with creation of police oversight office
Aurora councilmembers made a first official step in creating an independent police oversight office Monday, moving forward with an ordinance that lays out responsibilities for the office. The creation of an oversight office has been in the works for years, with approval and $330,000 in funding initiated when the city also entered into a consent…
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Aurora lawmakers to cast initial vote on police oversight office creation
Aurora lawmakers will discuss the creation of a police oversight office in Monday night’s City Council study session as the police department’s consent decree with the attorney general’s office nears its end. Aurora’s Community Advisory Council will brief the council Monday on the consent decree’s progress and future, then councilmembers will make an initial decision…
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EDITORIAL: May Aurora’s new council avoid Denver’s drama
As next-door neighbors, Colorado’s first- and third-largest cities have a lot in common. Their municipal governments, however, are a study in contrasts. Denver City Hall is a forum for drama. Too much rhetoric; too little focus on local government’s essential duties — stuff taxpayers actually care about, like patching potholes and policing streets. Maybe that’s…
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Aurora City Council approves statement of empathy, mourning for police shooting victims, families
The Aurora City Council officially approved a statement of empathy and mourning for people who have lost loved ones to officer-involved shootings at Monday night’s meeting. The resolution, proposed by Councilmember Rob Andrews, passed with three ‘no’ votes from Councilmembers Angela Lawson, Francoise Bergan and Stephanie Hancock. Andrews created the resolution in response to two…
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Aurora lawmakers move forward with immigration contract, inspection rules
The Aurora City Council moved forward Monday with two items meant to address immigration enforcement operations in the city through contract approval and inspection rules. In Monday night’s study session, a majority of the city’s councilmembers approved moving forward with an ordinance that would add a section to the city code enforcing periodic detention facility…