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La Plata County commissioners acknowledge open meetings law violation

La Plata County commissioners met to address a violation of Colorado’s open meetings law related to the preparation and submission of a co-authored opinion column published earlier this month in The Durango Herald ...

Colorado reps, Douglas County board clash over public comment limit

Reps. Brandi Bradley (R, Dist. 39) and Bob Marshall (D, Dist. 43), both of whom represent the county in the Colorado General Assembly, said that the board’s recent actions to limit public comment raises “constitutional and statutory” concerns ...

Rep. Suckla’s legal notices bill triggers opposition from Colorado Press Association

A House bill aimed at changing where legal notices are published in Colorado newspapers is drawing opposition from the Colorado Press Association a day before a second committee reading ...

Bipartisan bill requiring warrants for license plate reader searches moves forward in Colorado

SB26-070 would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to search automatic license plate reader databases if more than 72 hours have passed since the organization was alerted to a crime ...

Denver advances ban on masks for immigration agents and police with strong support

Denver City Council members advanced a proposed new law that would ban law enforcement agents from concealing their identities with face coverings. It’s a response, in large part, to the presence of masked immigration agents across the U.S ...

Loveland resident sues city, mayor over public comment dispute

Gail Randall, a resident of Loveland’s Ward 2, has filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Pat McFall, alleging that her First Amendment rights were violated during a City Council meeting ...

Trump administration is removing history and science from Bent’s Old Fort and other national parks, lawsuit alleges

A coalition of public lands advocates and historians has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of censoring American history and science at national parks, including several in the Mountain West ...

Editorial: Keep Colorado’s public business public

The ballot proposal would serve as both a stern warning and, very likely, a needed legal tripwire for Colorado’s elected and appointed public officials, reminding them to keep public meetings and records open and accessible to the citizens of our state ...

CU Boulder clears banned student journalist of charges, records show

The University of Colorado Boulder has found student journalist Ašiihkionkonci Parker not guilty of any student code of conduct charges after it banned Parker from campus in October after covering a pro-Palestine protest, records show ...

Colorado bill to make name change records for children private advances

Court petitions about a child’s request to change their name would be made confidential under a bill working its way through the Colorado Legislature ...