Colorado lawmakers defeated a measure that would have required people testifying before legislative committees to swear an oath to tell the truth under penalty of perjury.
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A judge ordered the payment of $148,822 in attorney fees and court costs to a parent who won an open meetings case against the Woodland Park school board for its discussion of a charter school MOU under a vague “BOARD HOUSEKEEPING” agenda item.
An initiative for the fall ballot filed by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
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.
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.
