Supreme court hears oral arguments for Woodland Park Public Schools case
he Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning Woodland Park RE-2 Board of Education’s efforts to “cure” an open-meetings violation in 2022 on Tuesday ...
‘Private meeting’ raises question about whether Douglas County commissioners violated open meetings law
An early April meeting by all three Douglas County commissioners and staffers to discuss home rule raised questions about whether the local officials violated Colorado's open meetings law ...
Colorado settles lawsuit with CPW commissioners over open meetings law violations
The state of Colorado has settled a lawsuit against two Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners who violated the state's open meetings law by drafting an opinion piece last year in support of a state ballot measure ...
Transparency advocates urge Gov. Polis veto of open records restrictions
A second letter asking Gov. Jared Polis to veto Senate Bill 25-077 has been sent from an odd-bedfellows coalition of transparency advocates and members of the news media ...
Five CO Springs news outlets scrub their websites of an article about the arrest of former GOP council member
Five news outlets have quietly removed a years-old news story from their websites about the 2019 arrest of a prominent former Colorado Springs City Council member, who ran in a Republican primary for a state House seat in 2023 ...
Judge: Newsmax Defamed Denver-Based Dominion Voting System
On April 9, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis determined that pro-Trump channel Newsmax had defamed Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems by falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election ...
McIntyre: Ouray deserves better than fake public votes, shredding documents
The problem isn’t with the city purchasing the property — it’s the way the council went about it, clearly making a decision behind closed doors in violation of the state’s open meetings laws ...
Pro-Palestine demonstrators sue Auraria Campus police, alleging last year’s arrests violated First Amendment
Eight Coloradans arrested during last year’s pro-Palestine demonstrations on Denver’s multi-college Auraria Campus are suing police over the break-up of the protest, alleging their arrests were unlawful and in violation of their free speech rights ...
CCFPD responds to allegations of open meeting law violation
Maxwell alleged “a deliberate violation of Colorado Sunshine/Open Meeting Law” by the CCFPD board. “The hiring of the fire chief without due process or the required public notice appears to conflict with both the legislative intent and plain text reading of statute (C.R.S. 24-6-402),” Maxwell wrote ...
Seven RTD light rail trains derailed last year. The investigations remain secret.
The public should be better informed about the cause of derailments under a new law — signed last month by Gov. Jared Polis — requiring the PUC to make RTD light rail accident investigations public if it would protect safety and health. PUC officials are tasked with implementing the law ...
