The State Parole Board may be required to release Tina Peters from prison on June 1 because the letter Gov. Polis wrote to her granting her clemency “you shall be released on parole effective June 1,2026, with terms and conditions of parole to be set by the parole board.” He said this to Tina, however, and not the Parole Board, so there may be some wiggle room there as to what the Board can do:
Below is a copy of the letter Polis addressed to Tina: 
Time is short to weigh in with the Parole Board on the possibility of her release, or the terms of her release if it is inevitable. Typically comments on a prisoner’s impending parole need to be submitted months in advance of their parole hearing, but since Polis’ commutation was sudden, it left little time for people to give input to the parole board.
People who want to weigh in should email their comments to doc_info_pb@state.co.us.
Following are guidelines for comments on Tina’s parole:
— When writing to the Parole Board, be sure to include Tina’s Department of Corrections (DOC) number. It’s #203512.
— Direct your message to the entire Parole Board. If you want to personalize it, the names of the Parole Board members are
- Rändi Moore (Chair),
- Stephen Holmes (Vice Chair),
- Greg Saiz,
- Catherine Rodriguez,
- Courtney Williams,
- Jeff Dick,
- Ron Leonard,
- Rodrigo Luevano and
- Sarah Young.
— Focus your comments strictly on public safety and the severity of the crimes.
— Do not make any emotional pleas.
— State concrete reasons why releasing Tina poses an unacceptable risk to society.
— Describe how Tina still poses a direct threat to specific people, the public or themselves. For example, the note below was posted on Tina’s GiveSendGo religious fundraising account in mid-March which sounds like a veiled threat against those she believes “have destroyed her name and uprooted her life.” These people would likely be Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, who prosecuted her, and Judge Matthew Barrett, who presided over her trial and sentenced her:
Search the internet for more posts by Tina on social media sites. There are lots of them, and get your comments in to the parole board right away if you want to weigh in on her release and/or the terms of her parole.
I was recently in a meeting with a well-known local reporter, and she told me that when she was at the courthouse for Tina’s sentencing, the reporter had her camera held up getting ready to take pictures as Tina was walking down the hallway into the courtroom surrounded by her attorneys and supporters. Tina saw the reporter holding her camera up and came over and grabbed the reporter’s arm and started jostling it around. The reporter looked over at the Sheriff’s Deputies who were standing there and they wouldn’t do anything. In other words, on her way into sentencing, Tina physically assaulted a local reporter and did not get in trouble for it. No wonder she thinks she is above the law. If I did that, I would have been arrested before you could blink an eye. Makes me sick that some people can get away with anything and not pay the full consequences. Jared Polis is a coward!
Would mention of her attempts to harm law enforcement at the MS Bagels incident be pertinent?
Can’t hurt to try. It’s well documented.
Please don’t fail to mention that the charges which precipitated the police confiscating Peters’ iPad were vacated by the Colorado court of appeals.
They found insufficient evidence to support the claim that Peters recorded the proceedings.
Please keep in mind that Ms. Peter’s was not charged with dereliction when she trashed my paper ballot, and those of numerous others.
Thanks so much for this, Anne.
I will try to compose and offer a reasoned and rational response to our Parole Board soon. There are so many possible things to consider about restrictions that would be in the best interests of all of us . . .