Colorado law does allow government agencies like Weiser’s to recover some costs of retrieving public records, and that might be part of the problem; the law gives those agencies too much leeway. But, honestly, 117 hours? ...

A Colorado school board violated the state’s open meetings law by concealing the true nature of a “public Christian school” the board allowed to open last year, a state judge ruled ...

Citing sovereign and qualified immunity, a federal judge dismissed a complaint against the Colorado government and judicial officials accused by a watchdog of coordinated efforts to cover up a 2019 bribery scheme ...

The records involve consulting work, paid for with public funds. Griswold's office says it doesn't have the documents and it refuses to ask the consultant for them, claiming that would impose an undue "burden." Instead, the Secretary of State's office sent four employees and the Attorney General's Office sent three attorneys to court ...

Congress needs to act here, and now, making clear that withholding immigration-officer body-cam video is illegal and antithetical to open and transparent government ...

The presentation provides an unusually candid view into how public agency spokespeople approach their role, a role that shapes much of the information the public receives from local governments, public school districts, and state and federal agencies ...

A national organization aimed at protecting free speech is denouncing the Community College of Aurora for issuing “unconstitutional demands” of student journalists, including prohibiting them from conducting interviews and publishing stories.  ...

An Aurora Community College student is accusing the college of putting an “unconstitutional gag order” on his student-run publication, saying the college banned it from publishing until students jumped through “countless bureaucratic hoops.” ...

Every other month, dozens of mayors from across the Denver metro area gather around a U-shaped table inside an unassuming office building. The meeting isn't open to the public. Most residents don't even know it exists ...

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 ...