2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 13 - Courts and Court Procedure
Courts of Record
Article 5.5 - Commissions on Judicial Performance
§ 13-5.5-101. Legislative declaration

CO Rev Stat ยง 13-5.5-101 (2016) What's This?

(1) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that it is in the public interest to establish a system of evaluating judicial performance to provide persons voting on the retention of justices and judges with fair, responsible, and constructive information about judicial performance and to provide justices and judges with useful information concerning their own performances. The general assembly further finds and declares that the evaluation of judicial performance should be conducted statewide and within each judicial district using uniform criteria and procedures pursuant to the provisions of this article.

(2) The general assembly further finds and declares that it is in the public interest to establish an office of judicial performance evaluation within the judicial department of the state to implement the provisions of this article.

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