Tag: Public Defender’s Office
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Aurora council to vote on several major issues Monday, including homeless court, domestic violence cases
Several ongoing conversations will be up for vote at Aurora’s City Council meetings Monday night, including proposals to harshen camping penalties in the city, create a homeless court, remove domestic violence cases from Aurora’s municipal court and get rid of the “sunset provision” on mandatory minimum jail sentences for car theft. At the study session…
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Aurora committee OKs ordinance sending domestic violence cases to county courts
The public safety committee of the Aurora City Council voted on Thursday morning to move forward with a proposal to remove domestic violence cases from municipal court and instead pass them to state, county or federal court. The proposed ordinance, presented on Thursday by councilmembers Dustin Zvonek and Danielle Jurinsky to the Public Safety, Courts…
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Aurora’s request for proposals to determine cost of contracting public defenders comes up empty
A request for proposals sent out by the city of Aurora in January to determine the potential costs of contracting out for indigent defense attorneys came back empty last week after months of tense discussion about the future of the city’s public defender’s office. The RFP was sent out in January, with proposals due in…
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Tension boils over at Aurora Council meeting about public defenders, call for ceasefire
Tension boiled over at the Aurora City council meeting on Monday, when two items — a call for a “cease-fire” in Gaza and efforts to undo the request for proposals to examine the potential effects of privatizing the city’s public defender’s office — were removed from the agenda. Councilmember Alison Coombs, who had championed the “cease-fire”…