Who’s influencing Denver officials? City Council aims for overhaul of lobbyist reporting requirements
The people who are paid to influence policy in Denver city government may soon have to publicly report a lot more about their activities ...
Colorado man awarded $50,000 after being banned from public agency’s social media
The Colorado State Patrol recently agreed to settle a civil complaint filed on behalf of a man who criticized the agency on one of its social media platforms. ...
Aurora police communication policy changes raise concerns for public safety, press freedom
An Aurora City Council decision to alter social media policies for the police department has raised concerns from press freedom and public safety advocates, who worry that limiting what police can release to the public will impact safety and limit media professionals’ ability to access crime information ...
Grand County public safety radio communication transfers to encryption
The Grand County Communications Center announced that, effective May 22, countywide public safety radio communications, including law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services, will transition to an encrypted radio platform ...
D-20 superintendent invited unauthorized ‘person of interest’ to special board meeting, leading to termination
Academy District 20 (D-20) Superintendent Jinger Haberer was suddenly fired from her position by the D20 Board of Education for reasons that remain unclear ...
Denver ICE deputy, former Lakewood agent, arrested for manipulating body camera
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy and former Lakewood Police Department agent was arrested for allegedly manipulating his body-worn camera during arrests ...
DPS to formalize CORA policy practice that lumps multiple requests to collect fees
Denver Public Schools is proposing changes to its CORA policy that would allow the district to combine related open-records requests for fee purposes, raising transparency questions from advocates about how broadly and retroactively the policy could be applied ...
Mesa County DHS mistakenly releases confidential client info
The confidential details were left unredacted, buried within tens of thousands of financial records obtained by The Daily Sentinel through a series of Colorado Open Records Act requests earlier this year ...
JeffCo parents question district’s transparency after unreleased safety audit raises questions
Datko said she first learned about the audit through school committee meeting minutes. But when she requested the records through Colorado’s open records law, she said the district initially told her only hard copies existed and that they had been destroyed ...
Editorial: The chief problem in Aurora is the police chief, not public information
In Aurora, the public is already at a disadvantage in getting a clear and accurate picture of what the crime situation is because of the strategic lack of transparency built into the Aurora police department ...
