Douglas County seeks Colorado Supreme Court review in open meetings lawsuit
A lawsuit centering around whether the Board of Douglas County Commissioners violated Colorado's open meetings laws could continue all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court ...
Hundreds of calls to Colorado child abuse hotline from youth treatment centers go uninvestigated
After the state Supreme Court ruling, The Colorado Sun sent a new request under the Colorado Open Records Act to get the up-to-date numbers of hotline calls ...
Opinion: Student press freedom under threat at GJHS
Student press freedom is being threatened by Grand Junction High School’s administration because of the reassignment of the school newspaper’s adviser ...
Colorado restores access to funeral home inspection reports 2 years after quietly blocking records
The new law will allow Coloradans to learn the details of what inspectors are finding as they ramp up scrutiny of the industry in the wake of several scandals involving fake ashes and mishandled remains ...
Colorado Springs Utilities CEO pay study not public
LPPC said the information was confidential. When asked why that was the case, as the information is from publicly owned utilities, an LPPC spokesperson said “confidentiality is standard practice for compensation benchmarking surveys across industries, consistent with how compensation studies are conducted by benefit consulting firms and industry associations broadly." ...
Aurora City Council to review proposed decorum changes for public speakers
In an effort to calm the occasionally raucous city council meetings, Aurora’s elected officials will consider changes to the city’s decorum rules, including a protocol for public speakers who surpass the time limit ...
Colorado man sues police after citation for projecting ‘abolish ICE’ on state Supreme Court
A man cited for projecting “stop ICE murders” on the Colorado Supreme Court is suing members of the city police department and Colorado State Patrol claiming violations of his right to free speech and petition ...
Gov. Jared Polis vetoes lobbying transparency bill, arguing it would be ‘very mean’ to future governors
Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bipartisan bill requiring Colorado’s future governors to be more transparent in how they seek to shape legislation, rejecting a measure that lawmakers said was inspired by Polis’ own approach to working in the Capitol ...
Opinion: Transparency wins with release of Larimer County autopsy report
Government officials should not be hiding information from us based on what they think is good for us to know, or for some ideological reason; a lesson the Larimer County Coroner recently learned the hard way ...
Gov. Jared Polis vetoes bill requiring disclosure from administration lobbyists
Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill that would have required executive branch lobbyists to follow much of the same disclosure rules that already govern other Capitol lobbyists ...