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"If there is a policy, there might need to be a better balance between protecting sensitive records and not inhibiting the rights of whislteblowers."
Gov. Bill Ritter commenting on the review of a new policy that forbids state employees from secretly tape-recording their co-workers in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, as quoted on 9News.com, 01/06/2008.

State rescinds deal for private prison

By Associated Press, Rocky Mountain News,
May 10, 2007

Plans for GEO Group Inc. to build a private prison in the Weld County town of Ault were dropped over a disagreement about whether the state should guarantee the company a minimum number of prisoners.

GEO spokesman Pablo Paez told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the state had awarded the company a contract to build the prison but later said it could not provide a minimum occupancy guarantee and rescinded the deal.


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