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.
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.
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.
A Colorado House bill would require municipal jails to maintain and make available to the public a daily record of inmates like county jails must do.
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.
The public hospital district in Estes Park is not required to redact privileged information from attorney billing invoices and release non-confidential portions to the Estes Valley Voice news site, a judge ruled.
Coloradans fought for press freedom and freedom of information in 2025 in settings as small as the Eastern Plains town of Bennett and as big as the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
