A Weld County Sheriff’s Office requirement that records request forms be notarized “creates an arbitrary and unreasonable hurdle” and “does not serve any legitimate government interest,” a letter from an attorney for two news organizations says.
Bennett trustees voted to settle a First Amendment claim brought by a weekly newspaper that lost town advertising last spring because the board didn’t like an article about a sexual assault that allegedly happened in the locker room of a middle school.
The Colorado Supreme Court established a two-step test for determining whether challenged speech or conduct is covered by a 2019 statute designed to protect Coloradans from meritless lawsuits that target free expression.
A judge made a “painfully obvious” legal error in ruling last May that the Douglas County Commission did not discuss public business during 14 meetings held outside of public view, three county residents say in a brief filed with the Colorado Court of Appeals.
Leaders of the Colorado General Assembly still haven’t decided whether to provide video coverage of committee meetings during the 2026 legislative session that begins in January, but House Speaker Julie McCluskie expressed her support for the idea.
A federal appeals court has revived a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit brought by a lawyer who alleges she was fired as general counsel of a special district for pointing out violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law.
Members of the Public Utilities Commission should be allowed to communicate with one another outside of public meetings because the Colorado Open Meetings Law “stymies brainstorming and discussion” and may also “inhibit the efficiency” of drafting decisions, a state agency says.
Case law and the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure require a private judge to lift a suppression order that makes an entire divorce case file and the order itself off-limits to the public, the president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition argued in a hearing.
A private judge has granted a request from the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition to intervene in a divorce case in which a suppression order makes the entire court file — and the order itself — unavailable to the public.
The cost to obtain administrative records of the state’s judicial branch will increase if the Colorado Supreme Court accepts the recommendations of its Public Access Committee.
