❓ Has policing in schools improved?

🛣️ New Toll Lane Tech is No Joke

Since the rollout of new AI-assisted sensors and cameras last October, the Colorado Department of Transportation has raked in nearly $4 million in fines, while seeing a 60% drop in toll lane violations. Every illegal foray over the double white line can cost a driver up to $150. [Denver7]

🏫 Has Policing in Schools Improved?

After three years of much debate and deliberation, campus police — or school resource officers (SROs) — have returned to Denver high schools. Recent data shows that officers are arresting and ticketing students less frequently than before, but that Black students still appear to be disproportionately policed. [Chalkbeat]

🧀 Appellate Court Favors Local Cheese Mogul

The Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld a 2022 ruling that local billionaire James Leprino (of Leprino Foods, the world’s largest producer of mozzarella cheese) is not guilty of withholding money from his nieces, who tried to sue their uncle for up to $900 million. [BusinessDen 🔒]

• Get the whole story: Here’s how a secretive mozzarella dynasty unraveled in court. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🏗️ Old Park Hill Mansion OK’d for Demolition

The city’s Landmark Preservation Commission has unanimously voted to deny a landmark designation request to save a Park Hill Italian Renaissance mansion. The owners’ plans to demolish it (backed by many fellow residents) were stymied for months as they fought with three local preservationists. Ultimately, city officials concluded the structure didn’t meet enough of the landmark designation criteria. [Westword]

The Northside’s Secret Mozzarella Dynasty Drama, Explained

Denver’s reclusive pizza cheese billionaire just won another legal battle against his own family. James Leprino of Leprino Foods has been fighting with his nieces over control of his mozzarella empire for years — but why?