Colorado - Multidisciplinary Crime Prevention and Crisis Intervention Grant Program
(V) Crime prevention and crisis intervention strategies may include: […] (D) Restorative justice services;
Restorative Justice Laws Database
The National Center on Restorative Justice’s Restorative Justice Laws Database was created as a resource for restorative justice advocates, practitioners, and researchers as well as policy-makers across the United States. Our aim is to organize and display in an easily navigated format the ways in which states have codified the use of restorative justice approaches.
Thank you to Shannon Sliva (University of Denver) and Thalia González (UC Law San Francisco) for their advisement and expertise throughout the process of creating this database. Thank you to Karen Sheu and Anna VanRoy for their data collection work.
This Restorative Justice Laws Database builds on an earlier legislative directory created in 2014 by Shannon Sliva in partnership with Carolyn Lambert (Georgia State University College of Law) and hosted by the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work from 2019 to 2024.
The laws included in this database were identified by conducting a search in Westlaw and LexisNexis using the terms visible under “Form of Practice” in the database search options below. Only laws that feature one or more of these terms are included in the database. Use of the terms in the text of the law does not necessarily mean that restorative justice practice is occurring in the given jurisdiction.
The NCORJ is committed to continuing to update this database. If you see something that is missing or a correction is required, please be in touch. For more information about the development of the database, to get assistance navigating it, or to request a copy of the raw data for research purposes, please contact Lindsey Pointer (lpointer@vermontlaw.edu).
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Colorado - Community Crime Victims Grant Program
(7) Permissible uses of grant money provided pursuant to the grant program include direct services to crime victims, as defined in section 24-4.1-302(5), and a victim’s immediate family, as defined in section 24-4.1-302(6), restorative justice, and other interventions intended to…
Colorado - Services for Expelled and At-Risk Students
(b) The grant application requirements, which at a minimum must include: (I) A plan to provide educational services, attendance supports, and behavior interventions. The plan must address: […] (B) Effective attendance and discipline systems, which may include multi-tiered systems of…
Colorado - Victim-offender Conferences Pilot Program
The department is authorized to establish a pilot program, when funds become available, in its correctional facilities to facilitate victim-initiated victim-offender conferences whereby a victim of a crime may request a facilitated conference with the offender who committed the crime,…
Colorado - Youth Services Victim-Offender Conferences Pilot Program
The division of youth services is authorized to establish a pilot program, when funds become available, in its facilities to facilitate victim-initiated victim-offender conferences whereby a victim of a crime may request a facilitated conference with the juvenile who committed…
Colorado - Entry of Plea of Guilty and Possibility of Restorative Justice
(2) Upon the entry of a plea of guilty to one or more of the allegations contained in the petition, the court shall advise the juvenile in accordance with rule 3 of the Colorado rules of juvenile procedure. The advisement…
Colorado - Presence of Defendant
(1) If the offense charged is a felony, a level 1 drug misdemeanor, or a class 1 misdemeanor or if the maximum penalty for the offense charged is more than one year’s imprisonment, the defendant must be personally present for…
Colorado - Conditions of Probation
(2)(a) When granting probation, the court may, as a condition of probation, require that the defendant: […] (III.5) Participate in restorative justice practices, as defined in section 18-1-901(3)(o.5), if available in the jurisdiction, and the defendant is determined suitable by…
Colorado - Advisement of Possibility of Restorative Justice, Juvenile
(1)(a) At the juvenile’s first appearance before the court, after the detention hearing or at the first appearance if the juvenile appears on a summons, the court shall advise the juvenile and the juvenile’s parents, guardian, or other legal custodian…
Colorado - Community Accountability Program
(1) It is the intent of the general assembly that the program established pursuant to this section benefit the state by providing a structured program combining residential and community reintegration components under which certain adjudicated juveniles are subject to an…