Editorial: Grand jury indictment against APD officer reflects larger transparency problem
The Aurora police department’s greatest impediment to restoring badly needed public trust is a consistent and pervasive lack of transparency and candor as officers carry out duties, and too often become the center of some crisis ...
US District judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit against Colorado over voter rolls
Denver-based U.S. District Court Judge Philip Brimmer said that the Department of Justice failed to provide a sufficient reason for obtaining unredacted voter information and that the federal government is not entitled to the data under federal law ...
Transparency vs. privacy: Wheat Ridge Police Department excessive force case highlights conflicting laws
The fight for that footage exposed a tension between Colorado laws as well — one that protects the privacy of individuals involved in certain situations, and another that demands transparency from law enforcement agencies ...
70 years of St. Louis history is stuck in a Denver data center, PBS station claims
A St. Louis PBS station says its 70-year archive of programming is stuck in a Denver data center after a cloud storage company cut off the TV station’s access to the 50 terabytes of data this spring ...
After dealing with widespread Webex disruptions, Colorado is testing a new virtual court system
After years of virtual courtroom disruptions that flooded Colorado court hearings with graphic violence, pornography and racist messages, the state’s judicial branch is testing a new platform designed for court proceedings. ...
History Colorado denounces federal draft rule concerning U.S. historic sites
History Colorado’s board of directors condemned proposed changes to the National Historic Preservation Act this month, saying a new rule would upend the goal of learning about — and from — the nation’s past ...
Colorado newsletter pulls police misconduct from the records vault
Blue Surveillance is essentially a one-man operation, run by investigative journalist Andrew Fraieli out of spite as much as principle, he says. Since launching in November 2025, he’s built perhaps the most public accounting of Colorado police misconduct ...
Editorial: Geo Group remains shrouded in darkness even as the Aurora facility is in crisis
What little oversight we will get of the Geo facility in Aurora and the new facility proposed for Hudson must come from Congress or from city, county and state officials ...
Opinion: Why our public business belongs in the light
As someone who writes for the Julesburg Advocate, I have seen how important it is for our government to be open. Democracy works best when citizens know how their tax money is being spent, how decisions are made, and why leaders vote the way they do ...
Fallout from student column sparks press freedom scrutiny in Grand Junction
The Grand Junction High School administration had attempted on numerous occasions to block the newspaper from publishing various content, and the column about Gaza may have been the final straw, said Steve Fox, who served as the newspaper’s advisor for five years ...