LAKEWOOD, Colo. — The City of Lakewood has paused the work of the temporary committee created to explore police oversight in the city, canceling a scheduled Aug. 25 meeting. The pause comes after friends and family of Jax Gratton — whose disappearance and death last year sparked the push for oversight — raised concerns about how the committee was formed and how its first three meetings went.
More than a year after Jax Gratton was last seen, the people who knew her best are still doing whatever they can to keep her memory alive.
“There’s some days that I think we probably made Jax really proud, especially when we’ve done different campaigns for trans rights and things like that,” said Z Williams, Gratton’s friend…