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Colorado Sun· April 14, 2026

Colorado Sun feature on competency-services backlog

Strong long-form journalism on Colorado's incompetent-to-proceed system, including patterns the Alliance has flagged as central to the civil-rights pillar.

civil-rights ·competency ·external-reading ·justice

Documentary photograph — five adults around a long wood table in a Colorado community-center conference room, mid-conversation, warm late-afternoon window light raking across the room. Real working clothes, real ceramic mugs and stacks of paper. Documentary scale, never staged.DRAFT

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This Colorado Sun investigation traces several years of the state’s incompetent-to-proceed (IST) backlog — patterns that overlap directly with the Alliance’s civil-rights pillar work with Disability Law Colorado.

The piece is worth reading in full for the lived-experience reporting alone.

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