A judge last May wrongly decided that the Colorado Open Meetings Law did not apply to several Douglas County Commission meetings held outside of public view, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled.
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Five years after The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS sued the state Department of Human Services, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered the agency to disclose to the news organizations aggregate child-abuse hotline statistics from three residential care facilities.
Erin O’Connell, whose open meetings lawsuit against the Woodland Park school board “sent a message to public bodies across Colorado,” is the newest recipient of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s Ruth Anna Citizen Champion Award.
Lawyers for Boulder and Yellow Scene Magazine clashed in the Court of Appeals over whether Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act lets agencies charge hundreds or thousands of dollars to provide body-worn camera footage showing possible misconduct by police officers.
State lawmakers narrowly defeated a bill that would have given state and local government entities up to three weeks to fulfill many requests made under the Colorado Open Records Act.
The mother of a 23-year-old woman who died in the downtown Denver jail won a ruling against a police department records custodian who repeatedly denied her requests for investigative documents about the death.
