Immigrant advocates are working with Colorado lawmakers to provide relief to vulnerable families during the coronavirus crisis.
Activists from the Colorado People’s Alliance are asking state leaders to provide cash assistance for undocumented workers who are not eligible for benefits. They also want immigrant detention facilities held accountable, and immigrant and other populations disproportionately affected by COVID-19 included in all worker protection provisions. Read more
Gov. Jared Polis issued a directive this week to his departments and state agencies barring them from sharing information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for civil enforcement. Read more
Denver public health officials are offering free testing for the novel coronavirus in new locations to reach underserved populations as the pandemic highlights racial inequalities. Read more
The Reimagine RTD Technical Working Group (TWG) met to continue providing guidance toward the development of a SOP to be implemented by RTD in the near-term and a Mobility Plan for RTD’s future. COVID 19 has greatly impacted RTD’s financial picture as well as how services and the Reimagine process are moving forward. Internally, RTD has pulled together a task force to look at how be a “smaller” RTD. Service to equity populations seems to be a consensus priority with access to employment centers also being identified as important. TOD and providing a basic “backbone” system of services are of great interest as well. Outreach and public engagement around Reimagine RTD and the SOP are starting to “gear up.”
