Colorado lawmakers’ latest police oversight bill would protect whistleblowers from retaliation

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Colorado lawmakers’ latest police oversight bill would protect whistleblowers from retaliation

Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant. That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and miscond…