The Denver Post: Colorado lawmakers are again seeking to provide more protections for police officers who report misconduct within their own agencies, taking a more compartmentalized approach nearly a year after a first attempt sparked resistance from a wide swath of law enforcement officials.

This time around, Democratic Reps. Jennifer Bacon and Chad Clifford spent months in negotiations and meetings with Colorado’s police chiefs, rank-and-file officers and county sheriffs across multiple working groups. The result is a whistleblower-protection measure, House Bill 1031, that is the first of what may become a four-bill package of overlapping law enforcement reforms that sprang from those negotiations and last year’s unsuccessful effort.

A second measure, House Bill 1136, would address concerns surrounding the state’s database of licensed law enforcement officers. Two more bills — one regulating the use of police body-worn cameras and another that’s been referred to as a “police officer’s bill of rights” — have not yet been introduced. Bacon said they may not come this year at all if their scope can’t be hammered out — another nod to the weight given to negotiations with the law enforcement lobby.

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