Expenditures by District Map FY21
SB 19-223 (Competency Bill)
§21-2-104 C.R.S. Duties of alternate defense counsel and contract attorneys.
(3) Pursuant to section 2-7-203, C.R.S., the office of alternate defense counsel shall report annually
to the judiciary committees of the house of representatives and senate, or to any successor
committees, information concerning:
(f) The process of training employees and contractors concerning determinations of
competency to proceed for juveniles and adults, competency evaluation reports, services to
restore competency, and certification proceedings governed by Article 65 of Title 27.
The Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel, in conjunction with the Colorado State Public
Defender's office, developed a comprehensive competency training that was delivered, live, to
fifteen locations throughout the state during the end of 2019, into 2020. To make this training
accessible to all our contractors, it was also webcast from one location, and recorded so it would
be available after the fact to those who were not able to attend in person or via webcast. The
fifteenth training was delivered in March of 2020, just before the pandemic hit and this training
has not been offered live since then. However, this training has been posted on our agency's online
training portal and is readily available to all our contractors to view on-demand. This
comprehensive competency training contained four hours of instruction and attorneys who
attended received five Continuing Legal Education credits.
In addition to these fifteen statewide comprehensive competency trainings, our agency did two
competency trainings in the fall of 2019 and two additional advanced level competency trainings
in May and June of 2020. All of these competency trainings are also available for on-demand
viewing and Home Study CLE credit on our agency's training website.
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