{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-23-102","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 18-23-102","heading":"Recruitment of juveniles for a criminal street gang.","body":"(1) A person commits recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang if he or she is eighteen years of age or older and:\n\n(a) Knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, coerces, or otherwise causes a person younger than eighteen years of age to actively participate in or become a member of a criminal street gang; or\n\n(b) By use of force, threat, or intimidation directed at any person, or by the infliction of bodily injury upon any person, knowingly prevents a person younger than eighteen years of age from leaving a criminal street gang.\n\n(2) Recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(b) of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor, and recruitment of a juvenile for a criminal street gang in violation of subsection (1)(a) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.\n\n(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the ability to charge criminal offenses under article 17 of this title.","path":["Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE","Article 23 - Gang Recruitment Act"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-18.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"3dbc9ecd3e78c11e9b0a112b1f73a798dc8fb2fb406e02ec428dd37e27a6904a","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-23-101","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-24-101"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}