{"id":15917,"date":"2019-06-13T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58383"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:15:09","slug":"governor-confirms-new-grand-county-district-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/governor-confirms-new-grand-county-district-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor confirms new Grand County district attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Barkey-Karzen-1024x651.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Barkey-Karzen-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Barkey-Karzen-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Barkey-Karzen-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/Barkey-Karzen.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Brett Barkey, left, announced his resignation as District Attorney of the 14th Judicial District, recommending Assistant District Attorney Matt Karzen, right, as his replacement. Gov. Jared Polis confirmed Karzen\u2019s appointment on Wednesday.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 Grand County will soon have a new district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jared Polis confirmed the appointment of Matt Karzen as the district attorney for the 14th Judicial District on Wednesday, which encompasses Grand, Routt and Moffat counties.<\/p>\n<p>He will officially take over July 1 and serve the remainder of Brett Barkey\u2019s term through 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Karzen\u2019s appointment comes after the current DA, Barkey,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/breaking-grand-countys-district-attorney-resigns\/\">announced his resignation<\/a> in May to dedicate more time to volunteer opportunities and to pursue a graduate degree for economics at the University of Denver.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barkey recommended Karzen as his replacement in his resignation letter to Polis, pointing to Karzen\u2019s 25 years of prosecution experience, including the last four years he has worked as the assistant district attorney.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the District Attorney\u2019s Office on Wednesday, Karzen said he is both humbled and honored to serve in the new position.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As DA, he wants to strike a balance between what he called public safety and human decency, trying to provide more treatment options for certain incarcerated individuals rather than pursuing long prison sentences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to me as the District Attorney, and as a citizen, to contribute to a thoughtful effort to identify effective alternatives to simply incarcerating the mentally ill or addicted,\u201d Karzen said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed interest in running for the district attorney position as an incumbent in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/governor-confirms-new-grand-county-district-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Barkey, left, announced his resignation as District Attorney of the 14th Judicial District, recommending Assistant District Attorney Matt Karzen, right, as his replacement. Gov. Jared Polis confirmed Karzen\u2019s appointment on Wednesday.Courtesy photos STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 Grand County will soon have a new district attorney. Gov. Jared Polis confirmed the appointment of Matt Karzen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:15:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}