Public access to funeral home inspection reports restored in Colorado House bill
A bill advancing in the Colorado legislature would restore public access to funeral home inspection reports with some limitations.
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State board denies title for proposed right-to-know constitutional ballot initiative
A state board declined to set the title for a proposed fall ballot initiative that would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
Court of Appeals says public defender’s office is not a criminal justice agency, reversing $13,650 penalty ordered by judge for records delay
The Office of the State Public Defender is not a criminal justice agency, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled, reversing a district court order that prison inmate Eric St. George be paid $13,650 in penalties because the agency withheld a document from him.
Court of Appeals: Colorado law enforcement agencies cannot charge fees for bodycam footage of alleged officer misconduct
Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act does not permit agencies to charge fees as a condition of releasing body-worn camera footage depicting possible misconduct by police officers, the Colorado Court of Appeals decided.
Colorado House bill aims to make sure parolee risk assessment records are open to the public
A bipartisan bill in the Colorado legislature is aimed at making sure the public regains access to records used by 9NEWS to show errors in the way the state screens the risk levels of parolees.
CFOIC mourns the loss of long-time board member Fred Brown, known for his ‘fervent advocacy for ethical reporting and government transparency’
Fred Brown, who died this week at age 85, demonstrated his passion for both journalism ethics and access to government information long before he joined the board of the newly formed Colorado Freedom of Information Council in 1988.
Five years after lawsuit filed, Colorado Supreme Court orders disclosure of child abuse hotline statistics to The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS
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.
Appellate judges weigh whether agencies can charge fees for bodycam footage of alleged officer misconduct
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.
Third attempt at lengthening CORA response deadlines for governments dies in Senate committee
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.
‘Zero evidence’ of a balancing test: In records case, judge sides with mother of woman who died in jail
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.