{"id":1317135,"date":"2019-12-05T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=991555"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:23:17","slug":"what-does-the-red-flag-law-do-when-someone-wont-give-up-their-guns-colorados-model-policy-docs-dont-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/what-does-the-red-flag-law-do-when-someone-wont-give-up-their-guns-colorados-model-policy-docs-dont-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the red flag law do when someone won\u2019t give up their guns? Colorado\u2019s model policy docs don\u2019t say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle outside of STEM School Highlands Ranch following a shooting that left one student dead and eight others wounded on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)<\/strong>
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The board overseeing law enforcement training and procedures in Colorado has released its model policy<\/a> for how police departments and sheriff\u2019s offices should use the new, controversial red flag gun law<\/a> when it goes into effect Jan. 1. <\/p>\n

The law allows a judge to order temporary seizure of guns from someone deemed a significant risk to themselves or others. But the guidance didn\u2019t include advice on what to do when someone refuses to give up their firearms.<\/p>\n

That was a major concern of critics of the<\/a> law, who said officers will be subjected to an extra level of risk as they carry out a court order to take away people\u2019s guns who aren\u2019t willing to give them up.<\/p>\n

The six-page guidance issued Dec. 1 by the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, known as POST, deals only with how law enforcement should accept, store and return guns seized under the law. <\/p>\n

The Colorado Attorney General\u2019s Office, which houses the POST Board, says language in the red flag law<\/a> limited the panel to forming a model policy for only those three parts of the legislation.<\/p>\n

Read more via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at <\/em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle outside of STEM School Highlands Ranch following a shooting that left one student dead and eight others wounded on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)Screen Shot 2019-12-05 at 3.18.28 PM The board overseeing law enforcement training and procedures in Colorado has released its model policy for how […]<\/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":["post-1317135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 10:24:35","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\/1317135","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=1317135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}