Community Engagement & Transparency
As the top law enforcement agency in the Larimer and Jackson Counties, the District Attorney’s Office's ability to do its job and keep the community safe starts with building trust. Under Gordon’s leadership, the District Attorney’s Office has become a national leader in community engagement and transparency.
Gordon has engaged with civic groups and senior citizen centers, partnered with nonprofits, collaborated with cultural organizations, and engaged with immigrant communities, LGBTQ+ groups, and other historically marginalized communities.
Gordon committed to and has provided annual updates to every town council and board in the district so that citizens and officials have a bigger voice. In 2022, Gordon developed the inaugural District Attorney Citizens’ Academy to engage with community members. The class was fully booked in its first three years and will return in 2025. Gordon also published the first-ever DA Annual Report in 2022, ushering in a new era of accountability. The 2022 and 2023 annual reports are available here: 8th JD Annual Reports. Gordon’s vision is for community members, including crime victims and those with lived experiences in the system, to have greater insight into the DA’s work and create a Citizen’s Advisory Board to provide feedback on the office’s work. Gordon knows that earning community trust will benefit the ability to support victims, secure convictions, serve historically marginalized communities, and seek just results.
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Gordon also launched the DA Data Transparency Project in 2022, a nation-leading public-facing data initiative that allows the community to understand and analyze the DA’s work. This cutting-edge project will improve data-driven decision-making aimed at identifying inefficiencies and saving taxpayer dollars, addressing historic inequalities, and ensuring tailored outcomes that reduce recidivism - transforming an antiqued system into a model for what modern prosecution and public service can look like.
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