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Activist sues Aurora over public comment ban after police shooting case

A prominent and regular spokesperson for a group seeking legal action against an Aurora police officer who fatally shot a Black man during his arrest last year has filed a lawsuit against the city, saying recent council actions have robbed her of rights to free speech ...

Appeals Court denies request concerning Douglas County lawsuit

The three Douglas County residents suing the Douglas County commissioners over alleged violations of open meetings law have lost their third round in court, this time at the Colorado Court of Appeals ...

Visitors to Colorado historic sites urged to report ‘negative’ information about America, per order

National parks and historic sites, including two prominent Colorado sites whose stories involve darker chapters in American history, have been directed by the Trump administration to post signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans,” triggering concerns that difficult narratives could be sanitized ...

Moffat County School District may withhold portions of ‘organizational health’ report, appeals court says

Colorado's second-highest court agreed that Moffat County School District was entitled to withhold certain portions of an "organizational health" report commissioned by its school board to investigate areas of concern ...

Jury finds MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defamed former executive at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems

A federal jury has found that businessman Mike Lindell defamed Eric Coomer, a former employee of Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, and is ordering him to pay roughly $2.3 million in damages ...

Are changes coming to Boulder City Council’s public comments?

Wallach suggested the city adhere to the doctrine of a Limited Public Forum, which would allow for the public to speak to the council but sets limits on what topics can be addressed ...

Jeffco librarians claim policy rollback opened door to censorship

LoSasso and other librarians said they were never informed of the change, and only discovered it recently when their decisions were overruled without explanation ...

31 Colorado officials seek to scrub addresses after Minnesota shootings, as campaign finance site goes offline

The state’s TRACER website was taken offline after the attack, said Jack Todd, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s Office. The decision was jointly made between the office and legislative leadership, Todd said, so that state lawmakers and other elected officials could file new requests to strike their addresses and phone numbers from the publicly accessible database ...

Mountain Village Ballot Measure No. 3 challenges over a century of precedent

A YES vote on the measure would contradict state law requiring municipalities to publish such notices in the newspaper of record. It would make Mountain Village a rare exception among the more than 300 municipalities and counties in Colorado, only a few of which have taken action to avoid publishing in newspapers, according to the Colorado Press Association ...

DOJ demands Colorado election data

The Department of Justice is demanding that Colorado turn over or preserve a massive amount of election data from the past two presidential elections. It's unclear what that data will be used for, but Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and his election-rigging claims ...