(1) (a) There shall be a discovery project steering committee convened to assist in developing a request for proposal application and selection process to choose a vendor to develop a statewide discovery sharing system. The steering committee consists of:
The attorney general or his or her designee, who shall serve as the chair of the steering committee;
The state court administrator or his or her designee, who shall serve as the vice-chairof the steering committee;
The state public defender or his or her designee;
A representative of the criminal defense bar appointed by the chief justice;
Three district attorneys appointed by the governor, one representing an urban judicial district, one representing a mid-sized district, and one representing a rural district;
A county sheriff appointed by the governor;
The alternate defense counsel or his or her designee;(VIII) A chief of police appointed by the governor; and
(IX) A district court judge appointed by the chief justice.
(b) The project steering committee must also have a nonvoting member appointed by the governor from the office of information technology who serves only as a technology advisor to assist the steering committee.
(2) and (3) Repealed.
(4) (a) The discovery project steering committee shall develop benchmarks and contractual requirements for the statewide discovery sharing system.
(b) The Colorado district attorneys' council shall enter into a contract with the selected vendor to complete the system by June 30, 2017. The contract must include the benchmarks and requirements developed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (4). The executive director of the Colorado district attorneys' council shall provide periodic reports to the steering committee and the joint budget committee regarding benchmarks and requirements and the progress of the development of the system. It is not necessary for the steering committee to meet to receive the periodic reports.
The discovery project steering committee may meet as necessary to provide practicaland technical support for the maintenance and enhancement of the system and to ensure that the system is meeting the needs of the criminal justice system.
Once the statewide discovery sharing system is operational, a district attorney or theColorado district attorneys' council, who, after making a good-faith effort to redact all information from a discovery document provided to a defendant or defense counsel, provides a document that contains information that is legally required to be redacted, is not liable for civil damages as a result of acts or omissions related to providing discovery documents that contain information required to be redacted that is not redacted.
Source: L. 2013: Entire part added, (SB 13-246), ch. 269, p. 1414, § 1, effective May 24.
L. 2014: Entire section amended, (SB 14-190), ch. 275, p. 1104, § 2, effective May 29. L. 2016:
(2) and (3) repealed and (4)(b) amended, (SB 16-091), ch. 52, p. 121, § 1, effective August 10.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in SB 14-190, see section 1 of chapter 275, Session Laws of Colorado 2014.