{"id":1312295,"date":"2019-07-10T21:27:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=983624"},"modified":"2019-07-10T21:27:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T03:27:31","slug":"letter-law-provides-immunity-when-entering-locked-vehicle-to-help-at-risk-person-or-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-law-provides-immunity-when-entering-locked-vehicle-to-help-at-risk-person-or-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Law provides immunity when entering locked vehicle to help at-risk person or animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to read about the dog who died in a hot vehicle (\u201cRifle cop urges people to leave dogs safely at home, not in cars,\u201d July 10, Post Independent). Colorado law provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for a person who forcibly enters a locked vehicle for the purpose of rendering assistance to an at-risk person or animal. To read more about the conditions under which a person receives immunity, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1179\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb17-1179<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Peterson,<br \/>Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-law-provides-immunity-when-entering-locked-vehicle-to-help-at-risk-person-or-animal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to read about the dog who died in a hot vehicle (\u201cRifle cop urges people to leave dogs safely at home, not in cars,\u201d July 10, Post Independent). Colorado law provides immunity from civil and criminal liability for a person who forcibly enters a locked vehicle for the purpose of rendering assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:17:33","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}