Fort Collins City Council to vote on rules that would allow it to change public comment
City staff says the proposed changes are meant to deal with disruptive crowds or high volumes of public comment that impede city business, but groups who have been prominent fixtures at council meetings say the new proposal limits public input and undermines transparent government and responsiveness ...
Bzdek: During Sunshine Week, Democrats pass the Colorado Darkness Law
That earlier law, dubbed the Colorado Sunshine Law, is the polar opposite of the new law, let's call it the Colorado Darkness Law, passed and signed by Gov. Jared Polis ...
Colorado Supreme Court to hear two cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced it will review the constitutionality of two judges' decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials ...
Boulder law enforcement officials release partial footage of December fatal police shooting
The City of Boulder, meanwhile, has not yet provided Boulder Reporting Lab unedited body camera footage of any police shooting in the last year in response to multiple requests ...
Zansberg and Roberts: Lawmakers pulled the shades on Colorado open meetings law. During Sunshine Week.
Irony is the juxtaposition of one conceptual proposition with a directly contrary reality, like a “vegetarian butcher” or something that’s “seriously funny.” Or the swift enactment — during Sunshine Week — of a new state law that lets members of the Colorado General Assembly discuss and formulate public policy outside of public view ...
Editorial: Governor enacts the the Smoke-Filled-Room Law
By signing this bill into law, Polis destroyed the public’s right to full transparency. He, more than the Legislature’s predictably extreme leadership, took from the people their basic right to watch a government in action. So much for “Of, By and For the People.” ...
Cherry Creek schools board says it will begin live-streaming meetings in April
Reportedly the only large school district not already live-streaming school board meetings, the Cherry Creek school board will begin web-broadcasting a portion of their regular meetings in April ...
Colorado Supreme Court declines to review Boulder defamation case
The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to review a defamation lawsuit that former Boulder City Council candidate Steven Rosenblum filed against local political activists, including Eric Budd ...
Weld County commissioners remove public comment from future board meeting agendas
The section for public comments will not appear on future Weld County commissioner meeting agendas after Chairman Kevin Ross sent out an email citing abuse of public comment during a March 6 commissioner meeting ...
Editorial: Municipal courts lack transparency, need online access
In the interests of full transparency with the public, it’s time that municipal courts throughout the state open their operations to the public in the same manner as district courts throughout the state already have ...