State lawmakers are trying for the third straight year to give state and local government entities up to three calendar weeks to fulfill many Colorado Open Records Act requests.
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Lawyers for a prison inmate and the Office of the State Public Defender argued in the Court of Appeals over whether OSPD is subject to the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act or the judicial branch’s records rules.
In a letter to a lawyer for 9NEWS and Colorado Public Radio, Weld County defended a sheriff’s office requirement that records request forms be notarized.
Following a screening of Stripped for Parts, a documentary about the hedge-fund takeover of The Denver Post and other newspapers around the country, a panel discussed what the pending purchase of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group could mean for broadcast journalism in Colorado.
But what makes all judicial records, both criminal and civil, presumptively open to public inspection? Why should the public be allowed to inspect court filings in routine, mundane cases like probate, trust and estates, employment, and domestic relations cases?
The public hospital district in Estes Park is not required to redact privileged information from attorney billing invoices and release non-confidential portions to the Estes Valley Voice news site, a judge ruled.
