Coloradans who want to report claims of federal agent misconduct can do so through a new complaint filing system with the state’s Department of Law, officials announced ...

Steve Zansberg, the lawyer for the three Colorado stations, recalled that the government’s justification for taking down public media included, among other things, a piece that NPR had run on “queer animals,” which “suggested the make-believe clownfish in Finding Nemo would’ve been better off as a female, that ‘banana slugs are hermaphrodites,’ and that ‘some deer are nonbinary.’” ...

The Grand Junction City Council is in the process of rubber-stamping a decision to hire a new city attorney. The process used to get to this ending (final vote on Jan. 21, 2026) has been anything but transparent ...

But now some board members are questioning whether the limits have shortened public comment too much. Board Vice President Monica Hunter, a former Denver teacher who was elected in November, said at last week’s meeting that she’d like to reconsider the time limits. Several other board members signaled that they agreed ...

Still, years after the city’s trust in law enforcement was shattered, the Aurora City Council still has not delivered what the community was promised and desperately needs — a truly independent, empowered system to oversee, regulate and hold the Aurora Police Department accountable ...

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says his office will launch an online portal where Coloradans can share their concerns and document alleged misconduct by ICE agents that occurs in the state ...

The Durango Board of Ethics concluded last week that a former advisory board member violated three sections of the city’s codes of ethics and conduct when he privately emailed a city councilor about public business and attempted to shield the correspondence from the public eye ...

The Denver City Council is considering a new policy that would ban law enforcement officers — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — from covering their faces during arrest and detention operations ...

And hats off to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, the nonpartisan watchdog that, for the past year-and-a-half, has been dogged in pursuing the change. It will bring more of the sausage making of the state’s legislative process to the screens of taxpayers seeking to access it in real time on a smartphone or computer ...

Four days into a jury trial, a Colorado judge declared a mistrial due to concerns about the competency of a retired Marine charged with harassing and strangling a reporter in the name of “Trump’s America.” ...