//**PROOF OF CONCEPT** — full quality-of-life profile for Colorado, 16 dimensions of the sex-offense registry regime. Ratings are researcher judgments from the //registrant's// perspective; each links its statute. NOT legal advice.//

====== Colorado — Registry Profile ======

**Weighted burden index 35.7/100** · rank **39 of 56** (1 = least burdensome) · 11/16 dimensions statute-verified · 2 unverified.

Legend: 🟢 favorable (less burden) · 🟠 moderate · 🔴 restrictive · ℹ️ context · ⚪ unknown. ✓ = statute-verified.

^ Dimension ^ Rating ^ Detail ^ Statute ^
| **Registration length** | 🟠 moderate | Tiered by offense class — ~5 yrs (petty/misd.), 10 yrs (class 4-6 felony), 20 yrs (class 1-3 felony) before deregistration eligibility; lifetime for SVPs and serious/repeat offenders | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-16-criminal-proceedings/co-rev-st-sect-16-22-113/|C.R.S. 16-22-113]] ✓ |
| **Removal / petition off** | 🟠 moderate | Real petition to deregister (court may grant, discretionary) with tiered waiting periods; SVPs, most serious/first- and second-degree sexual assault offenders, and repeat (2+) offenders permanently barred — ⚑ needs human review | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-16-criminal-proceedings/co-rev-st-sect-16-22-113/|C.R.S. 16-22-113]] ✓ |
| **Individualized risk assessment** | 🔴 restrictive | No — registry does not use risk assessment (handled by treatment/parole/probation) | n/a |
| **In-person reporting frequency** | 🟠 moderate | Quarterly for SVPs; annually for others | C.R.S. 16-22-108 |
| **Registration fee** | 🟠 moderate | Locally set — a local agency MAY charge up to $75 initial and up to $25 per annual/quarterly re-registration (cost-based, waivable for indigent) | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-16-criminal-proceedings/co-rev-st-sect-16-22-108/|C.R.S. § 16-22-108]] ✓ |
| **Residency restriction** | 🟠 moderate | Limited — no statewide statutory ban; residency limited only while on parole/probation supervision, plus many local ordinances — local: ~35 jurisdictions (e.g. Northglenn, Westminster, Greeley) impose ~1000 ft local zones | [[https://cldg.legal/blog/are-there-residency-restrictions-for-sex-offenders/|No statewide residency statute (supervision conditions only)]] ✓ |
| **Employment restriction** | 🟢 favorable | None — no statewide employment distance/proximity restriction for registrants | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/restrictions/colorado/|n/a]] ✓ |
| **Presence / loitering restriction** | 🟢 favorable | None statewide — no statewide presence/loitering ban near schools/parks; only some city/county local ordinances exist | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/restrictions/colorado/|n/a]] ✓ |
| **Visitor registration trigger** | 🟠 moderate | Must register if visiting over 14 consecutive business days or over 30 aggregate days in a year | C.R.S. 16-22-102; 16-22-103 |
| **Internet identifiers required** | 🔴 restrictive | Yes (child sex crime convictions) — email addresses, instant-messaging and chat room identities required | [[https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_16-22-108|C.R.S. 16-22-108(2.5)]] ✓ |
| **Civil commitment** | ⚪ unknown | Cited C.R.S. 18-1.3-908 confirmed via FindLaw to be a PRE-SENTENCE psychiatric evaluation/reporting procedure, NOT a post-sentence SVP civil-commitment statute; whether Colorado has any SVP civil-commitment program remains unconfirmed from a primary source (Colorado's 'sexually violent predator' designation is used for community notification, and its lifetime-supervision scheme is indeterminate sentencing, neither of which is civil commitment) | C.R.S. 18-1.3-908 |
| **Public website exposure** | 🟠 moderate | Lowest tier withheld — juveniles (adjudication-only) and adults with a single/first sexual misdemeanor excluded from internet posting; only felony and repeat-misdemeanor registrants may be posted — lowest tier withheld | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-16-criminal-proceedings/co-rev-st-sect-16-22-112/|C.R.S. 16-22-112]] ✓ |
| **Halloween / holiday restriction** | ⚪ unknown | No statewide Halloween/holiday statute located; any such rule would be an individualized parole/probation condition (could not confirm from a source read) | n/a |
| **Marked driver's license / ID** | 🟢 favorable | Not marked — Colorado does not require the driver's license or state ID to be labeled to identify a registrant | [[https://www.probationinfo.org/restrictions/colorado/|n/a (no marking requirement)]] ✓ |
| **Community notification (& who pays)** | 🟠 moderate | Active community notification only for the highest-risk tier (sexually violent predators) under carefully controlled circumstances; general registry is a passive website; no registrant cost | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-16-criminal-proceedings/co-rev-st-sect-16-13-903/|C.R.S. 16-13-903 to 16-13-905 (SVP community notification)]] ✓ |
| **Age of consent (context)** | ℹ️ context | 17 — close-in-age: 15-16 if partner less than 10 years older; under 15 if partner less than 4 years older | [[https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-18-criminal-code/co-rev-st-sect-18-3-402/|C.R.S. § 18-3-402 (sexual assault)]] ✓ |

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Source wiki page: [[colorado|Colorado]] · compare with others via [[playground:qol_index|the index]].
//Weighted index from the v1 model (weighted_score.py); weights encode NARSOL's judgment about everyday lived burden. Removal ratings and the weights need NARSOL/attorney sign-off before authoritative use.//