Colorado bill would require law enforcement obtain a warrant to search Flock database in some investigations
Law enforcement may one day need to obtain a warrant in order to search the data collected from license plate readers in Colorado during certain investigations, if a piece of legislation currently being drafted becomes law ...
Denver7 reporter Tony Kovaleski on 42 years of life-changing investigations
In his decades-long career as an investigative reporter, Tony Kovaleski has often risked his own safety for the sake of the story. Angry subjects have pushed him, cursed at him and otherwise tried to shake the longtime Denver7 reporter and his camera crew as they sought responses to allegations of fraud, abuse and self-dealing ...
Saguache Crescent newspaper survives doing things the old way
Saguache residents say they couldn’t live without it. And Coombs, who periodically doubles as a plumber for the people he serves, sees no reason to switch to modern digital production and electronic delivery to smartphones ...
Bzdek: ‘The canary in the democracy mine is local journalism’
When is our state going to do something about its own crisis in democracy, i.e., journalism? Fifty-two local newspapers have closed in the last decade. Why doesn’t our legislature care? Why aren’t the politicians in those communities screaming their heads off in panic right now? ...
Massive volume of digital evidence is crippling Colorado’s criminal justice system
The Colorado District Attorneys' Council says a serious crime can easily result in more than 50 hours of body camera footage in addition to dashcam, doorbell camera and drone video. Prosecutors and public defenders are drowning in digital data ...
Eagle County judge issues gag order in teen murder case, preventing further reporting
Judge Rachel J. Olguin-Fresquez issued a gag order preventing the media from reporting on the reverse-transfer and preliminary hearings for 17-year-old Nefi Ezequiel Armijo Hernandez, who is accused of first-degree murder following the death of 14-year-old Jackson Davis in April of 2024 ...
Conservative podcaster, author of Christian romances added to Mesa County library board after rowdy public meeting
The commissioners were forced to move the appointments to public discussion when hundreds of citizens packed the commission chambers and overflowed into two meeting rooms. Some stood outside the county building waving signs opposing the appointments ...
North Routt Community Charter School parents escalate dispute over head of school’s firing with legal demand letter to board
In the letter, Clark claims that the board failed to properly notice executive sessions held on Oct. 31, did not cite the required statutory authority when entering those closed sessions, held two executive sessions less than 24 hours apart without a lawful basis and did not create mandatory audio recordings when discussing personnel matters ...
Aurora council returns to full public comment allowance, hears demands for police reform
The Aurora City Council held its first meeting under new rules for public comment, giving the public one hour at the beginning of the meeting and one hour at the end to speak to councilmembers ...
Nicolais: Artificial intelligence makes it tougher to spot fake news every day
The increased use of artificial intelligence has added jet fuel to deepfakes and conspiracy theories that have plagued the political landscape over the past decade ...
