From KKTV:
Kerst’s family said they’re working to get Colorado’s competency laws changed, but now they’re not the only ones. Safe2Tell founder and Colorado Springs resident Susan Payne said current competency laws undermine everything that has been done to create safer communities in Colorado.
“It’s certainly keeping me awake at night, and all Coloradans should be awake at night because our children aren’t safe, our schools aren’t safe,” she said.
Payne said she has joined with the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network to release a citizen petition, which would call on district attorneys across Colorado to use their positions to lobby the legislature to call a special session where they would re-examine, or even change, competency statutes.
“We’re seeing our judges and our district attorneys, their hands are tied, and the victim’s family is getting no closure at all, it’ll be a lifetime of grieving, and there is nothing we can do,” Payne said. “We have to make a change here in Colorado.”