Want public records from the Weld County Sheriff’s Office? Better find a notary.
The Weld County Sheriff’s Office recently mandated that anybody seeking public records from the agency must get a form notarized in order to obtain documents — a move a free speech expert called an unprecedented and unlawful burden ...
Colorado police officers’ use-of-force dashboard to publish this fall. Here’s what to expect.
A statewide report and public dashboard on police officers’ use of force, a requirement set under Colorado’s sweeping police accountability reforms, is set to be published by the end of fall, months after its original deadline ...
Opinion: Public officials are using privacy concerns to trample on your right to know
The public has the right to know about protected Colorado wolves killed legally by hunters when they cross the Wyoming state border, but officials here are blatantly using a 2012 state law as a feeble excuse to keep all information secret ...
Colorado Springs Mayor Mobolade accused of ‘dangerous’ policy
A Colorado Springs councilman said he feels the new mayor is restricting his ability to ask questions directly of city department heads ...
Colorado Springs’ federal judge to mediate Woodland Park schools free speech suit
Lawyers for the Woodland Park School District and the local teachers' union agreed to mediate their dispute over a policy that allegedly infringes on employees' constitutional right to free speech ...
The Colorado Sun, a pioneering for-profit/nonprofit hybrid, moves toward a fully nonprofit model
The Colorado Sun is going nonprofit. The five-year-old digital news organization, launched by journalists who’d left The Denver Post following round after round of cuts by the paper’s hedge-fund owner, Alden Global Capital, had operated as a rare for-profit exception in the universe of local news startups. Now the Sun is joining its tax-exempt peers ...
Gottlieb: Unpopular DPS board further walls itself off from the public
It is sadly predictable that in the same week a bipartisan poll of likely voters showed widespread disaffection with the Denver school board, that same board decided to severely curtail the public’s one monthly opportunity to provide it with in-person feedback ...
Wyoming is killing Colorado’s wolves, again, and the state’s keeping it secret
An 11-year-old state law intended to conceal the identity of people who legally kill wolves in Wyoming is keeping Wyoming officials tight lipped. The statute is being interpreted so broadly that Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials say they cannot share anything more specific than the aggregate number of wolves that have been killed in the state’s 53-million-acre “predator zone” — an area that covers roughly 85% of Wyoming ...
Denver school board to limit public comment to a total of 2 hours
Monthly public comment before the Denver school board will be limited to a total of two hours going forward, a restriction that board President Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán described as a “temporary solution” to the problem of too-long meetings ...
Colorado appeals court sides against Northglenn mosque protester in defamation lawsuit
Colorado's second-highest court agreed a man who filed suit over media coverage of his protest activity failed to show how his defamation claims had merit ...
