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Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map

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Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map. “The state health department’s Air Pollution Control Division has launched a new, interactive online map to search for air quality records. The map provides access to thousands of digital air quality records for stationary sources of air pollution.”

Government Technology: Colorado Launches Tool to Improve Government Accessibility

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Government Technology: Colorado Launches Tool to Improve Government Accessibility. “The state will now offer constituents a digital tool to help people who are blind or have low vision navigate physical government locations and digital services in an effort to improve accessibility.”

Bloomberg: Google Keyword-Search Warrants Questioned by Colorado Lawyers

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Bloomberg: Google Keyword-Search Warrants Questioned by Colorado Lawyers. “After five people were killed in a 2020 arson in Colorado, law enforcement officials failed to turn up any leads through their initial investigative techniques. So they served a warrant to Google for anyone who had searched for the address of the fire, according to a court motion.”

Denver Post: CDOT snowplow driver offers a glimpse behind the wheel

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Denver Post: CDOT snowplow driver offers a glimpse behind the wheel. “The online COtrip map, which already gave users highway information from around the state, including camera images, construction information, electronic signs, road conditions and road closures, is now tracking CDOT snowplows in real-time. It’s the first season that the public is able to track snowplow locations and work areas on the map, and it includes the plows’ names, such as Darth Blader, Snowtorious B.I.G., and Eisenplower, which were submitted and voted on by Colorado kids from across the state in 2021.”

CBS Denver: State archives soaked after pipe bursts in government archive building

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CBS Denver: State archives soaked after pipe bursts in government archive building. “In the basement of an unassuming building, just a block from the Colorado State Capital sits a paper trail that tells the story of the state’s history. It’s the Colorado State Archives, and there are three basement levels of boxes containing documents that are part of Colorado history. One week ago, during the historic cold snap that rolled through the State, a pipe burst and leaked water all over the documents.”

Vail Daily: Old Vail Trail editions are now digitized through July 1992

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Vail Daily: Old Vail Trail editions are now digitized through July 1992. “Vail in the 1980s can now be relived by locals online as ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org has digitized the Vail Trail newspaper’s weekly collection through July of 1992. The newspaper is now searchable through the free website, which is a service of the Colorado State Library.”

9News: New website helps backcountry explorers find avalanche conditions

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9News: New website helps backcountry explorers find avalanche conditions. “Snow has returned to the high country, which also means an increased risk of avalanche. And the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) has launched a new website helping users looking for avalanche conditions in Colorado.”

Craig Press: Museum of Northwest Colorado project preserves local newspapers for public access

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Craig Press: Museum of Northwest Colorado project preserves local newspapers for public access . “The Museum of Northwest Colorado is working toward digitizing an archive of newspapers from 1945 to 1982 in an effort to better preserve that period of local history and make the records more available for research. The museum is home to more than a century’s worth of original newspapers, containing local records of happenings and history that are often requested by different kinds of researchers.”

KRDO: CPW launches conservation dashboard to show progress on protecting sensitive species

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KRDO: CPW launches conservation dashboard to show progress on protecting sensitive species. “Prior to the launch of the Species Conservation Dashboard, the only way for the public to view information about CPW’s State Wildlife Action Plan was through a PDF. The new dashboard now allows people to explore the progress being made on the more than 350 species and 2,500 conservation actions the agency is taking.”

KRDO: State launches new online directory to find behavioral health specialists in Colorado

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KRDO: State launches new online directory to find behavioral health specialists in Colorado. “This online directory helps people to find behavioral health providers licensed by the [Colorado Behavioral Health Administration] and to search for specific services or use a guided search to identify providers or resources that best meet their needs. Searches can be specific and narrowed down by criteria such as location, days of operation, language support, payment types accepted, and more.”

Loveland Reporter-Herald: Loveland Museum releases more than 1,500 digitized archival photos in online collection

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Loveland Reporter-Herald (Colorado): Loveland Museum releases more than 1,500 digitized archival photos in online collection. “Ashley Yager, collections manager for the museum, said the project, which has been in the works since around October of last year, has taken 1,520 historical photos of Loveland and added them into a searchable program where residents can go and find specific images of the Sweetheart City’s past. Each photo includes some information behind the image; previously, museum staff had to locate the physical copy of the photo for each request.”

Denver Post: “Digital dragnet” or necessary tool? Denver police’s use of controversial Google search technique in deadly arson draws legal fight

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Denver Post: “Digital dragnet” or necessary tool? Denver police’s use of controversial Google search technique in deadly arson draws legal fight. “More than three months had passed since five family members died in an arson fire and investigators still had no leads on who set the house ablaze on the quiet street in northeast Denver. They’d authored nearly two dozen search warrants since the Aug. 5, 2020, fire with no luck. But on Nov. 19, 2020, Denver police served a warrant asking Google to turn over information about anyone who had searched the address of the burned house in the Green Valley Ranch neighborhood during the 15 days prior to the fire.”

Colorado State University: Colorado launches environmental justice tool developed by three CSU organizations

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Colorado State University: Colorado launches environmental justice tool developed by three CSU organizations. “This week marks the launch of Colorado EnviroScreen, the interactive online environmental justice tool to help disproportionately impacted communities and designed by three Colorado State University entities for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). More specifically, EnviroScreen identifies the Colorado communities that have been most impacted by systematic barriers to health and wellness and the cumulative impact of environmental pollution.”

KDVR: Tool shows wildfire risk in every Colorado community

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KDVR: Tool shows wildfire risk in every Colorado community. “A new tool from the Colorado State Forest Service shows how at-risk every Colorado community is for wildfires. The Forest Atlas has several overlays that show users data on state forests that reflect wildfire risk, burn probability and how intense fires can be.”

Midterm Elections: Data-Mapping Tool for Voting Locations Now Available in 14 States (University of Southern California)

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University of Southern California: Midterm Elections: Data-Mapping Tool for Voting Locations Now Available in 14 States. “The Voting Location Siting Tool uses a web-based interactive data mapping system to identify areas within a half mile in diameter where vote centers and polling places would likely have the most success in serving voters…. Launched in California in 2018, the tool is now available in 14 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Over the coming months, CID will be conducting trainings for election officials and community advocacy groups on how to use the tool to identify accessible and equitably distributed polling locations in their communities. ”