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Locations Set for Statewide Trainings

Locations for Statewide Trainings-- this Week!

 

 

Please note that locations have been set for these upcoming, vital trainings in Denver, Grand Junction, and Colorado Springs.  Please check our website for updates on the Ft. Collins location.

(Training Descriptions pasted below schedule)

SCHEDULE
Friday February 26th (Denver)
4:00-6:00p  Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting

 

Location

Local Product of Colorado

1260 22nd Street

Denver, CO 80205
Saturday February 27th (Grand Junction)
4:00-6:00p  Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting

 

Location

God's Gift Dispensary

571 32 Road

Clifton, CO 81520
Sunday February 28th (Colorado Springs)
4:00-6:00p   Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p   Emergency Response Community Meeting

 

Location

Cannabis Therapeutics

957 East Fillmore St.

Colorado Springs, CO 80907
Monday March 1st (Ft. Collins)
4:00-6:00p   Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting 

Location

TBA

Please check www.sensiblecolorado.org as the event approaches

 

Community Response Meeting:
This FREE meeting is open to all community members that want to participate in a coordinated response during and after raids. During this meeting, we will create a step-by-step community response to raids (rallies, protests, media, alert system), assign roles and tasks, and create a mechanism for ongoing outreach for community support.

Raid Preparedness Training:
This training will walk dispensary staff through protocols that they can have in place to make any law enforcement encounter as successful as possible.  Being ready can help keep a bad situation from getting worse - and it may keep staff and patients out of jail. Participants learn how to prepare in advance, how to stay safe when the police show up, and what may happen afterwards. This cutting edge training includes role plays and tools to create an effect raid plan at your dispensary.  (There is a $50 per person fee that will be collected on-site at the training)

These trainings will be led by national experts from Americans for Safe Access.

RAID RESPONSE: Trainings this week


RAID RESPONSE:  Trainings around the state this week

 

 Sensible Colorado is excited to welcome national experts from Americans for Safe Access (ASA) to Colorado to lead a number of important trainings this week.


See the workshop schedule below.
In response to recent raid activity, ASA Executive Director Steph Sherer and ASA CA Director Don Duncan will host special dispensary staff trainings and community response meetings.

Community Response Meeting:
This FREE meeting is open to all community members that want to participate in a coordinated response during and after raids. During this meeting, we will create a step-by-step community response to raids (rallies, protests, media, alert system), assign roles and tasks, and create a mechanism for ongoing outreach for community support.

Raid Preparedness Training:
This training will walk dispensary staff through protocols that they can have in place to make any law enforcement encounter as successful as possible.


Being ready can help keep a bad situation from getting worse - and it may keep staff and patients out of jail. Participants learn how to prepare in advance, how to stay safe when the police show up, and what may happen afterwards. This cutting edge training includes role plays and tools to create an effect raid plan at your dispensary.  (There is a $50 per person fee that will be collected onsite at the training)
Mark your calendar!  We will send out more specifics later this week.
 

Friday February 26th (Denver)
4:00-6:00p  Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting
 

Saturday February 27th (Grand Junction)
4:00-6:00p  Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting
 

Sunday February 28th (Colorado Springs)
4:00-6:00p   Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting
 

Monday March 1st (Ft. Collins)
4:00-6:00p   Raid Preparedness Training
7:00-9:00p  Emergency Response Community Meeting

Also, thanks to all our supporters that attended the protest during President Obama'a visit last week.  See a picture of the action here.

Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo Responds to the Passage of SWAT Reporting Legislation in Maryland


For immediate release:                                For more information:
April 8, 2009                                               Cheye Calvo, 301-789-5469
 
STATEMENT OF BERWYN HEIGHTS MAYOR CHEYE CALVO
ON PASSAGE OF SWAT TEAM REPORTING LEGISLATION

Senate passage of HB 1267 sends measure to Governor O'Malley for his signature

(Berwyn Heights, Maryland – Tuesday, April 8, 2009)  "Last night, the Maryland Senate passed HB 1267, the SWAT Team Activation and Deployment Reporting legislation, by a vote of 46-0.  This same measure was passed 126-13 by the House of Delegates on March 28, 2009.  The measure now goes to Governor Martin O'Malley for his signature.  I am hopeful that Governor O'Malley will sign this bill and make Maryland the first state in the nation to establish a statewide system of oversight and accountability for SWAT team deployments."
 
"HB 1267 will require law enforcement agencies with SWAT teams to report every six months to civilian authorities and to the public on the number, general location, purpose, authorization, and results of SWAT deployments.  It also directs the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to analyze the information and issue an annual report on SWAT team deployments in states."
 
"I want to express my profound appreciation to the Maryland General Assembly for advancing this legislation and, in particular, want to thank the lead sponsors, Senator C. Anthony Muse (Prince George's) and Delegate Kris Valderrama (Prince George's), and the dozens of Senate and House co-sponsors for their leadership on this issue."
 
"Although the botched raid of my home and killing of our dogs, Payton and Chase, have received considerable attention in the media, it is important to underscore that this bill is about much more than an isolated, high-profile mistake.  It is about a growing and troubling trend where law enforcement agencies are using SWAT teams to perform ordinary police work.  Prince George's County police acknowledges deploying SWAT teams between 400 and 700 a year -- that's twice a day -- and other counties in the state have said that they also deploy their special tactical units hundreds of times a year.  The hearings on these bills have brought to light numerous botched and ill-advised raids in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties that also have had devastating effects on the lives of innocent people and undermined faith in law enforcement.  HB 1267 will shine this light, provide oversight, and demand accountability as a matter of course."
 
"It is my strong believe that police must their homework and resort to SWAT teams as a last -- rather than initial or de facto -- response.  It is my hope that, by providing oversight and accountability, HB 1267 will encourage law enforcement to exercise better judgment before deploying these paramilitary operations into our communities.  It is also my hope that this bill will provide elected officials the information that they need to establish sound and effective standards for how, when, and why SWAT teams are deployed."
 
"Although I applaud lawmakers for passing this bill over the objections of law enforcement, I was disappointed that state law enforcement groups decided to oppose this measure rather than embrace it as an opportunity to restore the public trust.  I remain especially concerned with the argument put forward that only law enforcement should police itself and that it is somehow inappropriate for elected leaders to legislate oversight and accountability.  I cannot disagree with this argument more.  As an elected officials, we must take full responsibility for the law enforcement departments that we fund and authorize, and we must hold our law enforcement officials to the highest standards and ideals.  I strongly support law enforcement and believe that so many of our officers are heroes.  However, it is perfectly consistent to support them, provide oversight, and demand accountability -- just as our constituents support, oversee, and demand accountability from us."
 
"It is my hope that HB 1267 is the first step among many more that will strengthen and rebuild trust in our law enforcement agencies.  I am hopeful that Governor O'Malley will sign this bill soon, and I am committed to work going forward to promote policies that both enhance our public safety and protect our civil liberties."
 
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City of West Hollywood Officials Decry DEA Raids on Five Marijuana Dispensaries

Press Release Source: City of West Hollywood City of West Hollywood Officials Decry DEA Raids on Five Marijuana Dispensaries Wednesday January 17, 9:52 pm ET WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--City of West Hollywood officials reacted swiftly today to news that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had raided and shut down five medicinal marijuana dispensaries located in West Hollywood. "The City of West Hollywood has had a long-standing commitment to the compassionate use of medical marijuana for those persons who are facing catastrophic illnesses," said City Manager Paul Arevalo. The DEA's enforcement of federal drug laws against the dispensaries conflicts with Proposition 215, a ballot measure approved by the California voters in 1996 decriminalizing the use of medical marijuana.
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