This report represents the discrepancies reported by audit boards during the 2020 General Election. It is generated using the Colorado Risk-limiting Audit Software with an annotation by the Voting Systems team in the Colorado Secretary of State's office.
This guide is a compilation of crimes and traffic infractions in Colorado. For each offense, a brief description of the elements of the crime and the statutory citation is provided.
This research evaluates the effectiveness of the SH 9 Colorado River South Wildlife & Safety Improvement Project, including two wildlife overpasses, and five wildlife underpasses connected with 10.4 miles of wildlife exclusion fencing in Grand County, CO. The project was designed to improve driver safety while allowing for wildlife movement across the road. This study uses motion-activated cameras and WVC crash and carcass data to determine how successful the mitigation measures are. In addition to the crossing structures, deer guards, escape ramps, pedestrian walk-through gates and the fence end are being monitored.
This memorandum provides an overview of temporary changes the Colorado Division of Insurance (DOI) implemented in response to the spread of COVID-19 and associated declaration of a disaster emergency. The DOI regulates the insurance industry in Colorado, including insurance carriers selling life, health, title, and property and casualty insurance, and insurance agents. This memorandum details the emergency regulations and bulletins issued by the DOI for insurance carriers in Colorado. Emergency regulations are regulations that have been adopted by the Insurance Commissioner without going through the public rule making process. Bulletins are the DOI's interpretation of existing insurance law or general statements of its policy.
This issue brief provides an overview of the Colorado unemployment insurance (UI) program, including UI benefits, funding, and solvency in the context of recent economic downturns. Economic downturns result in increased claims on regular state UI benefits. The speed and intensity of changes in UI claims during the COVID-19 Pandemic have been unprecedented.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists did a field survey of boreal toads, a state endangered species, at Zimmerman Lake, Larimer County, CO. Each toad caught was check for the chytrid fungus, which attacks amphibians by destroying their skin, disrupting their immune systems and causing heart failure as a way to assess the health of the boreal toad population. The biologists collect the toads eggs to be hatched to restock in locations other locations in Colorado to reestablish the population in the state.
This report provides a synthesis on the use and design of snow sheds to protect transportation corridors against avalanches. This report summarizes the various snow shed designs and standards, regulation environment, construction and operational costs, risk, benefits, loading considerations, operational and design considerations, and alternate methods employed when snow sheds are no longer needed, or when alternative long-term mitigation measures are employed.
This memorandum provides an executive summary of the various Executive Orders issued during the declared disaster emergency related to the presence of COVID-19 in Colorado.
It's normal to be concerned about new diseases, and new information is coming out frequently. The best thing people can do is stay informed from reliable sources and know the facts. It's important to remember that the risk to most Coloradans from 2019 novel coronavirus is low. Colorado state and local public health are working together, following federal guidance, to assess Colorado travelers returning from China to determine the need for monitoring, restriction of movement, quarantine, or other action to prevent the spread of the virus.
