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    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_anchor",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Existence of statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Colorado has no age-verification statute in force that applies to individual creators or platforms; the closest bill (SB25-201) was introduced in 2025 but never passed and was lost.",
      "body": "Colorado has no age-verification statute in force that applies to individual creators or platforms; the closest bill (SB25-201) was introduced in 2025 but never passed and was lost.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“Status\nLost”\n\nNote: Searched Colorado General Assembly bills for 2023-2026 sessions using terms 'age verification', 'age checks', 'online sexual materials'. Only SB25-201 (2025) directly proposed age verification for websites with harmful-to-children material; it passed committee but was laid over repeatedly and never reached a floor vote, ultimately dying as 'Lost'.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "Status\nLost",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "Colorado age-verification statute",
      "topic": "existence of statute",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.legal",
          "access.geo"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "placeholder_quote_too_short",
          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_bill_sb25_201",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 (2025) Require Age Checks for Online Sexual Materials: proposed statute text",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 would have required 'covered platforms' (internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material harmful to children) to perform reasonable age verification measures, prevent children from accessing such material, and arrange annual independent audits; it would not have applied to individual creators using someone else's platform.",
      "body": "SB25-201 would have required 'covered platforms' (internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material harmful to children) to perform reasonable age verification measures, prevent children from accessing such material, and arrange annual independent audits; it would not have applied to individual creators using someone else's platform.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.”\n\nNote: Bill was introduced 2025-03-20, referred to Senate Health & Human Services, passed committee 8-1 on 2025-03-27, then laid over multiple times (2025-04-01, 2025-04-04, 2025-04-10, 2025-04-14) and never reached a final vote. Status: Lost.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB25-201 (2025) Require Age Checks for Online Sexual Materials",
      "topic": "proposed statute text",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.legal",
          "access.id",
          "rules.content"
        ],
        "explicitness": "explicit_solo"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb25_201_threshold",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 (2025): threshold triggering duty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201's duty would have applied to 'covered platforms' defined as internet websites that 'knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children' — no minimum percentage or volume threshold stated.",
      "body": "SB25-201's duty would have applied to 'covered platforms' defined as internet websites that 'knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children' — no minimum percentage or volume threshold stated.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.”\n\nNote: No proportion-of-material or volume threshold in the bill text; trigger is the knowing/intentional publication of material harmful to children.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB25-201 (2025)",
      "topic": "threshold triggering duty",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.legal",
          "rules.content"
        ],
        "explicitness": "explicit_solo"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb25_201_verification",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 (2025): accepted verification methods",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 would have required 'reasonable age verification measures' and that covered platforms offer 'at least one option by which the covered platform may verify the user's age without the user having to disclose the user's identity' using 'commercially available technologies that are independently certified to be highly effective in establishing that an individual is not a child'.",
      "body": "SB25-201 would have required 'reasonable age verification measures' and that covered platforms offer 'at least one option by which the covered platform may verify the user's age without the user having to disclose the user's identity' using 'commercially available technologies that are independently certified to be highly effective in establishing that an individual is not a child'.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“On and after July 1, 2026, a covered platform must offer each user at least one option by which the covered platform may verify the user's age without the user having to disclose the user's identity. For this purpose, a covered platform must employ commercially available technologies that are independently certified to be highly effective in establishing that an individual is not a child.”\n\nNote: Also required: could not rely solely on IP geolocation; must apply 'extensive due diligence based on available technology' before concluding user is not in Colorado; must include appeal process for age determinations.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "On and after July 1, 2026, a covered platform must offer each user at least one option by which the covered platform may verify the user's age without the user having to disclose the user's identity. For this purpose, a covered platform must employ commercially available technologies that are independently certified to be highly effective in establishing that an individual is not a child.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB25-201 (2025)",
      "topic": "accepted verification methods",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "access.id",
          "safety.legal"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb25_201_data_retention",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 (2025): verification data retention and deletion",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 would have required covered platforms to 'destroy the personal data as soon as reasonably possible after a potential user's age is checked for age verification' and to comply with the Colorado Privacy Act in acquiring and retaining personal data.",
      "body": "SB25-201 would have required covered platforms to 'destroy the personal data as soon as reasonably possible after a potential user's age is checked for age verification' and to comply with the Colorado Privacy Act in acquiring and retaining personal data.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“A covered platform that acquires personal data for the purposes of age verification must destroy the personal data as soon as reasonably possible after a potential user's age is checked for age verification. In acquiring and retaining personal data, a covered platform must otherwise comply with the requirements of the \"Colorado Privacy Act\".”\n\nNote: Bill explicitly required prompt destruction after verification check.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "A covered platform that acquires personal data for the purposes of age verification must destroy the personal data as soon as reasonably possible after a potential user's age is checked for age verification. In acquiring and retaining personal data, a covered platform must otherwise comply with the requirements of the \"Colorado Privacy Act\".",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB25-201 (2025)",
      "topic": "verification data retention and deletion",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.privacy",
          "safety.legal"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb25_201_enforcement",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 (2025): enforcement mechanism and penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB25-201 did not specify enforcement mechanism or penalties in the bill summary; the fiscal note would contain details but the bill never passed.",
      "body": "SB25-201 did not specify enforcement mechanism or penalties in the bill summary; the fiscal note would contain details but the bill never passed.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.”\n\nNote: Bill summary does not state enforcement mechanism (state action, private right of action, penalties). Fiscal notes (FN1, FN2) were produced but bill never enacted. Marking contested because absence of enforcement text in summary does not prove absence from full bill text.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "CREATOR STRATEGY",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "On and after July 1, 2026, the bill requires certain internet websites that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute material that is harmful to children (covered platforms) to:Perform one or more reasonable age verification measures to verify the age of each individual who attempts to access such material;Prevent children from accessing such material; andArrange for annual independent audits of the results of the covered platform's reasonable age verification measures.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB25-201 (2025)",
      "topic": "enforcement mechanism and penalty",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "choosing",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.legal",
          "rules.enforcement"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb24_041_explicit_no_age_verification",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB24-041 (2024) Privacy Protections for Children's Online Data: explicit statement that age verification is not required",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB24-041, which became law effective October 1, 2025, explicitly states: 'Neither a controller nor a processor that processes personal data for a controller is required to implement an age verification or age-gating system or otherwise affirmatively verify the age of consumers'.",
      "body": "SB24-041, which became law effective October 1, 2025, explicitly states: 'Neither a controller nor a processor that processes personal data for a controller is required to implement an age verification or age-gating system or otherwise affirmatively verify the age of consumers'.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“Neither a controller nor a processor that processes personal data for a controller is required to implement an age verification or age-gating system or otherwise affirmatively verify the age of consumers, and a controller that conducts commercially reasonable age estimation is not liable for an erroneous age estimation.”\n\nNote: This is the enacted Colorado law on children's online data (amending the Colorado Privacy Act). It affirmatively prohibits requiring age verification. Effective October 1, 2025.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB24-041",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "Neither a controller nor a processor that processes personal data for a controller is required to implement an age verification or age-gating system or otherwise affirmatively verify the age of consumers, and a controller that conducts commercially reasonable age estimation is not liable for an erroneous age estimation.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB24-041 (2024) Privacy Protections for Children's Online Data",
      "topic": "explicit statement that age verification is not required",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "running",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "access.id",
          "safety.legal"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_sb26_051",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] SB26-051 (2026) Age Attestation on Computing Devices: enacted law targeting OS providers and app stores, not creators",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] SB26-051, enacted June 3, 2026, effective July 1, 2028, requires operating system providers (Apple, Google) and covered application stores to provide age signals to apps; it does not impose duties on individual creators or content platforms.",
      "body": "SB26-051, enacted June 3, 2026, effective July 1, 2028, requires operating system providers (Apple, Google) and covered application stores to provide age signals to apps; it does not impose duties on individual creators or content platforms.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“The act requires an operating system provider that operates a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates, on a commercial basis, the download of applications from third-party developers to users of devices (covered application store) or makes a covered application store available preinstalled on an operating system to:Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or age bracket of the user of that device in order to provide a signal regarding the user's age (age signal) to applications available in the covered application store;”\n\nNote: Targets OS providers and app stores only. Civil penalties up to $2,500 per minor per negligent violation or $7,500 per minor per intentional violation, enforced by attorney general.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "The act requires an operating system provider that operates a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates, on a commercial basis, the download of applications from third-party developers to users of devices (covered application store) or makes a covered application store available preinstalled on an operating system to:Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or age bracket of the user of that device in order to provide a signal regarding the user's age (age signal) to applications available in the covered application store;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "SB26-051 (2026) Age Attestation on Computing Devices",
      "topic": "enacted law targeting OS providers and app stores, not creators",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "running",
        "region": [
          "us-co"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "access.id",
          "safety.legal"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "legal_fetch_over_cap"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r286_colorado_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_co_av_court_injunction",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Colorado age-verification law: court injunction status",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] No Colorado age-verification statute has been enacted, therefore no court has enjoined any such statute.",
      "body": "No Colorado age-verification statute has been enacted, therefore no court has enjoined any such statute.\n\nWhat Colorado General Assembly actually says:\n\n“Status\nLost”\n\nNote: Only relevant bill (SB25-201) never passed; no enacted statute exists to be challenged. Compare to Louisiana HB 658, Utah Social Media Regulation Act, California AADC which have active litigation.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB25-201",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Colorado General Assembly",
      "evidence_quote": "Status\nLost",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "286-colorado-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "Colorado age-verification law",
      "topic": "court injunction status",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "Colorado specifically",
      "tags": {
        "lane": "any",
        "stage": "trouble",
        "region": [
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        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "safety.legal",
          "rules.enforcement"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "placeholder_quote_too_short",
          "strong_label_on_weak_content"
        ],
        "checked_utc": "20261023-202009Z"
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