Millions of publicly available data points about Denver’s government disappeared after the website that hosted them went dark. The city’s open data catalog reappeared, apparently after Arvada’s government renewed the domain name ...
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The city of Cortez has been digging into a recent embezzlement case, but a 2016 software switch makes it hard to determine how long the fraud was happening ...
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A court order makes a preliminary finding that the Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners made policy decisions during executive session earlier this year that should have been in made in public ...
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Rather than answer questions from the media, this is the second time police have created propaganda videos. The intent is clear. Police create these in an effort to spin a story to their advantage in cases where the public was wounded or killed ...
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Records show that former Gov. John Hickenlooper pushed state corrections officials to hire a retired FBI agent to review the 2013 murder of Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements and state policies. The Gazette reports that the retired agent was paid nearly $40,000 and submitted his findings to the state in August 2018, but his report has never been shared with the public ...
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Some states have developed policies for the release of body-worn camera video but in Colorado, authorities have considerable discretion in deciding when and how much video to release ...
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The special meeting was scheduled after the Plaindealer raised concerns over whether the meeting the council held was properly noticed, according to state open meetings laws, and whether the decision made by councilors was made in accordance with state law ...
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The Colorado Supreme Court released a batch of decisions about the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and among them decided an entire agency can’t be a “state public body” according to Colorado’s Open Meetings Law ...
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A recent email sent out by a Berthoud trustee apparently violated Colorado Open Meetings Law by discussing public business prior to a scheduled board meeting ...
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For weeks, city council meetings have been disrupted by activists who show up en masse, verbally abuse city lawmakers and especially Mayor Bob LeGare. They hijack the meetings with profanity, vulgarities, chanting and a wide range of bullying tactics ...
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