Judge rejects school board’s request for jury trial in open meeting law case
The question of whether Douglas County school board members broke Colorado Open Meetings Law will not be decided by a jury, but rather by the judge who initially ruled that a series of one-on-one meetings about public business is illegal ...
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Editorial: Open comments at public meetings
Public participation is a cornerstone of democracy. Public comment periods exist at all levels of government for a reason: without hearing directly from the people, authorities are apt to decide in favor of their own biases. I’m not naive enough to think that simply having public comment periods sways officials away from their biases. But it might ...
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A wildlife camera bill repeatedly fails. Secret survey results at the Capitol might explain why
KUNC discovered there was some “backroom stuff” that Lynch and the public weren’t aware of at the time. And it might help explain what happened. Democrats who control the legislature privately ranked the legislation in a secret ballot process they call quadratic voting ...
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Denver Public Schools superintendent requested secret meeting to discuss policy change
In the hours after an East High School shooting wounded two administrators, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero requested a secret meeting with the board of education to discuss changing the district’s policy on campus police, The Denver Gazette has learned ...
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Longmont City Council supports limiting public comment on quasi-judicial matters
Following in the footsteps of the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Longmont City Council voted unanimously to prohibit public comments concerning upcoming quasi-judicial matters during its regular meeting ...
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Editorial: Treat Dolores parents as school stakeholders
Setting up a Zoom call would have been easy. Is there really no school recording of Boebert’s visit? It was such a big deal. Snippets of sneaked students’ recordings have been leaked and shared, with one landing on a YouTube channel ...
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Douglas County school board member Elizabeth Hanson resigns during public meeting
She said “the last straw” was her colleagues’ recent refusal to settle a lawsuit that accused directors of violating Colorado’s open meeting law last year when they prepared to fire former Superintendent Corey Wise ...
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Colorado Supreme Court drops ‘catch-all’ question about prospective judges’ backgrounds from application
Weeks before an Arapahoe County judge admitted he failed to disclose his affair with an employee when he was applying to be a judge, the Colorado Supreme Court dropped a question from the state's judicial application form that asked candidates to disclose problematic information from their pasts — and provided grounds for discipline if they were untruthful ...
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Colorado Republicans’ private ‘group chat’ may violate open meetings law
Despite telling a radio host that he used a “group chat” to direct his House Republican colleagues to walk out on the Legislature’s final day, state Rep. Matt Soper (R-Delta) now claims he has no record of that chat message. The same goes for all members of the House Republican leadership, who jointly responded to the Colorado Times Recorder’s open records request by saying they have “no responsive records.” ...
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Gov. Polis signs law protecting identities of young crime victims and witnesses
The law which takes effect in 2024 is designed to protect the identities of underage crime victims and witnesses in reports released to the public ...
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