A judge upheld Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s denial of a conservative group’s request for records showing office-door badge swipes by her and her security team.
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The Lakewood City Council violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law by failing to publicly announce the topic of a 2024 executive session “in as much detail as required,” a judge ruled.
The Colorado Court of Appeals will decide whether a town council’s improperly noticed meeting requires the public disclosure of an executive session recording.
The results generated by an AI chatbot are determined by the interaction of human prompts, the large language dataset, and the algorithmic programming for processing; accordingly, the public is entitled to know all of these data points, just as they are entitled to know the identities of the humans who contribute to the formulation of public policy.
Below are some ideas for additional changes that favor government transparency and the notion that governmental proceedings could be made more accessible to more people without imposing unreasonable burdens on public bodies. These proposed updates are gleaned from the more than 7,600 inquiries to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s FOI hotline over the past 13 years.
The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition is fiscal sponsor for a new film about the First Amendment to be aired on PBS stations starting in October.
