Civil Rights

With a declaration that protection from discrimination and basic access to government services, housing, employment and recreation are important for the well-being of Coloradans with disabilities, in 2023, legislators created the Task Force on the Rights of Coloradans with Disabilities. The Task Force was created with the mission of bringing together the appropriate stakeholders, experts, and impacted groups to study and make recommendations concerning issues related to persons with disabilities.

Legislation further created four subcommittees:

1. The Government Subcommittee responsible for studying and making recommendations related to physical and programmatic basic accessibility within state and local government;
2. The Housing Subcommittee created to study and make recommendations related to the affordability, accessibility, and attainability of housing for persons with disabilities;
3. The Outdoors Subcommittee created to study and make recommendations related to basic access to the Colorado Outdoors for persons with disabilities; and
4. The Rewrite Subcommittee is tasked with studying and making recommendations concerning various issues related to the rewrite and modernization of the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning civil rights for persons with disabilities.

Confluence was selected by the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) and its Civil Rights Division to support, facilitate and manage the work of the Task Force and each of its subcommittees. Among the first tasks undertaken by Confluence, the State leaders and Task Force Chair and Vice Chair was to guide Task Force members through the process of making recommendations to the Governor for the membership of each subcommittee which are comprised entirely of members from outside the Task Force with experience and backgrounds identified in legislation. Upon the appointment of all members, Confluence began scheduling, planning, managing and facilitating the work of all subcommittees in collaboration with the Chair, Vice Chair and state leaders.