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Ryan Partridge was incarcerated in the Boulder County Jail while experiencing severe symptoms of schizophrenia. He sued jail workers for failing to provide adequate care and treatment.

The 2021 law requires people with a mental illness to be let out of their cell for at least two hours per day. The challenges the county is facing with compliance reveal just how ill-equipped jails are to care for those most in need of mental health treatment, advocates say.

The Boulder City Council has voted to remove a member from the Police Oversight Panel, the latest flashpoint in a dispute that has dominated Boulder headlines for months.

Starting on April 1, 2023, residents and businesses can only compost food, plant trimmings, yard waste and certain compostable bags, according to the compost recycler serving Boulder.

The order highlights the legal implications of ticketing people for sleeping outside when they may have nowhere else to go.

City of Boulder officials said they offered to provide housing vouchers before the closure. It wasn’t enough, according to the CEO of Golden West.

The recovery home will be an incremental step toward addressing methamphetamine addiction in Boulder County. In 2020, the county estimated 535 people who passed through the Boulder County Jail were addicted to methamphetamine, according to its grant proposal. (There are currently 412 people incarcerated or detained in the jail, according to state data.)

The city is planning to fully reopen the downtown Boulder Public Library on Monday, Jan. 9, with some notable changes to bathroom access and likely security, city officials said. The library was closed on Dec. 20 following tests showing contamination for methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that is often smoked. The Meadows, George Reynolds and North Boulder library branches remain fully open. City officials said the library was able to reopen after extensive cleaning of carpets, walls and HVAC systems throughout the building, and after new testing confirmed contamination outside the restrooms meets state regulations on methamphetamine cleanup. The bathrooms will remain closed for continued cleaning for several weeks.