Chase N The Dream

This Brainiacs show is videotape of Legislative Committee Hearings on House Bill 1012 regarding limiting surveillance of worker's compensation claimants.

Denver City Councilman Paul Lopez and Martha Rodriquez promote the Census in Spanish for five minutes, assuring residents they should fill it out, even if they are not legally here.

Host Paula Rhoads reviews Colorado's statutes defining mentally disabled people and finds them lacking. C.R.S. 27-10-102 (gravely disabled) and 15-14-102 (can't communicate or think quickly) and 13-81-

But where do people disabled by traumatic brain injuries fit? Or any brain injuries? And if you could get defined as gravely disabled, where does that get you? Institutionalized?

Senator Suzanne Williams puts a kinder, gentler face on the Indian mascot bill she sponsored and which has already died this Legislative Session. Raising awareness of the issue was, in fact, accomplished, however.

Other bills Senator Williams sponsored are also reviewed in this show, including the Primary Seat Belt law proposed in hopes of winning federal money AND SAVING LIVES, enforcement of disabled parking, Medicaid payments to hospices, and a variety of health bills.

<p>Pastor Richardson teaching on the life of Joseph</p>

<p>Creative Commons discussion after the Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig that took place at DOM on February the 25th.</p>
<p>Moderator: Tony Shawcross is the Executive Director of the Open Media Foundation.</p>