Investigations
Police: Colorado Medical Marijuana Surplus Feeds Regional Black Market
- A loophole in Colorado’s medical marijuana rules means thousands of pounds of surplus marijuana are left to feed the black market here and in neighboring states, an I-News Network investigation has found. Read more…
Privacy Laws Prevent Sex Assault Investigations
- Officials at the University of Colorado know about a pattern of alleged date-rape drug use at a fraternity in Boulder, but say the law prevents them from naming the fraternity to police. Read more…
Sexual Assault on College Campuses: Is Secrecy Putting Students at Risk?
- Officials at the University of Colorado know about a pattern of alleged date-rape drug use at a fraternity in Boulder, but say the law prevents them from naming the fraternity to police. Read more…
Rape Prevention Fails when it’s Focused on the Wrong Rapist
- If your image of a rapist is a hooded stranger in a dark alley, think again. The face of most rapists is one their victims recognize.
In almost all sexual assaults – 90 percent, according to the U.S. Justice Department – the attacker is someone the victim knows. More…
Video: Privacy vs prosecution in campus assualt cases
- Mary Friedrichs, who directs the Office of Victim Assistance at the University of Colorado, the District Attorney for Boulder County Stan Garnett and Joanne Belknap, who survived a sexual assault as a student at CU in 1980 and now researchers sexual violence as a professor at CU, discuss the tangle of conflicting priorities between preserving confidentiality of victims and law enforcement’s ability to identify and prosecute attackers. Watch…





