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Aurora City Council meetings will moving to online-only allowing for accessibility upgrades

Starting in December, city council meetings will be held exclusively online to accommodate construction in the chambers that will improve accessibility ...

Colorado judge orders Jena Griswold’s attorneys to continue negotiating for missing leadership report

The court ordered Griswold's team to negotiate in good faith with Sage River Consulting, which is no longer operating, to obtain documents they say they've deleted but might be able to revive at a cost ...

Poudre school closure plan faces legal challenge

The parents of a student at Beattie Elementary School have filed a civil complaint against Poudre School District’s Board of Education for what they claim are violations of the state’s open meetings laws ...

Boulder parents take school closure fight to Colorado Supreme Court, court swiftly denies petition

Rosenthal said she and the other parents petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court because the denial hinges on a fundamental question of the state’s open meetings law ...

Opinion: Aurora has a troubling relationship with democracy

Something is fundamentally wrong with a government spending more energy controlling the voices of its residents than addressing the injustices they speak about. Yet this has become an increasingly disturbing pattern in Aurora, where public participation appears welcome only when it doesn’t challenge the comfort or authority of those holding power ...

Denver to face trial over arrest of man recording officers, judge says

A jury will decide whether Denver has widespread practices or policies that led officers to unconstitutionally arrest a man for recording and speaking to them, a federal judge ruled ...

Request for report regarding Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold headed back to court

Three months after a Denver District Court judge ordered Secretary of State Jena Griswold's Office to ask a consulting agency if it has a missing $25,000 report, the consultant has released a set of demands ...

Boulder police deny records request regarding hazing incident, citing active investigation

The Boulder Police Department has denied a request for a police report from a fall 2025 hazing incident where emails showed more than half of the fraternity members were suspended, citing an ongoing investigation ...

Judge denies parents’ injunction, clearing way for Boulder Valley school closures

Maxfield argued that Boulder Valley Superintendent Rob Anderson and Assistant Superintendent of Operations Rob Price meeting with one to two school board members at a time to go over the closure plan before it was presented at the public Aug. 25 school board meeting violated Colorado’s open meetings law ...

Aurora lawmakers continue bickering over public comment conundrum

After months of discussion and a recent swell of public participation, council members are leaning toward slightly more relaxed sanctions for speakers who defy the three-minute comment limit ...