Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie endorsed a plan to provide a basic level of video streaming of legislative committee meetings that would cost $70,000 in the first year of operation.
A bill that shields the identities of people who seek and get state compensation for property damage caused by wildlife is headed to the desk of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
A judge has ordered the Colorado Office of the State Public Defender to pay a prison inmate a $25-a-day penalty, totaling $13,650, for its “arbitrary and capricious” denial of his request for a policy document.
The Regional Transportation District is considering capping fees for public records requests from the news media.
A bill that extends Colorado Open Records Act response times for public and commercial requesters won the support of a state Senate committee.
Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill that would undo open meetings law exemptions for the General Assembly enacted last year and make a host of other changes to Colorado’s government transparency statutes.
Leaders of the Colorado General Assembly briefly discussed whether legislative committee meetings should be video livestreamed — with two of them expressing doubts about the idea.
Court rulings in Denver and El Paso County rejected arguments from public utilities that water usage records for large data processing centers are confidential under the Colorado Open Records Act.
An online clearinghouse of pre-introduced legislative proposals — an idea that died on the General Assembly’s calendar in 2024 — gained new life when a Colorado House committee unanimously passed a measure that delays the project’s implementation until 2028.
A state senator is trying again to curb what she has referred to as the “abuse” of the Colorado Open Records Act by certain records requesters.
