Colorado Springs group alleges accessibility issues in Mayor and City Council Listening Tour
However, a group called Integrity Matters says the listening tours are not inclusive of the Colorado Springs population or diversity of thought on how the city should move forward. Their issues include frustration with a registration limit on the city website, which showed the Aug. 25 meeting full and closed to further registrations ...
Aurora police to launch transparency portal, meeting a key requirement of the consent decree
Aurora's police department is working to make the department more transparent. And right now, they're required to do so under a consent decree, a legal settlement forcing reforms in the district. ...
Four LGBTQ+ books to remain on Douglas County library shelves
Four books with LGBTQ+ themes will remain on Douglas County Libraries’ shelves after the board of trustees voted to retain them ...
Colorado sues EPA to stop public access to air pollution records
The Environmental Protection Agency says Colorado agencies and citizen watchdogs cannot possibly enforce the Clean Air Act against polluters unless everyone has open public access to the polluters’ records of what they spew into the air. ...
City of Durango disputes legal fees owed in lost open records case
The city of Durango is disputing more than $21,000 in legal fees an attorney representing resident John Simpson claims are owed in an open records case he won against the city in February ...
State judicial discipline panel seeks information on more than 120 judges
Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline is compiling “in-depth” information on more than 120 judges who The Denver Gazette recently revealed had not filed personal financial disclosure reports to the state this year despite a law requiring it, according to emails obtained by the newspaper ...
Scripps News obtains bodycam video of past incident with mass shooter
Scripps News fought to obtain video of the June 2021 incident that unfolded in a neighborhood outside of Colorado Springs in hopes of giving the public a clearer understanding of what happened between the person who would go on to kill five people at Club Q ...
Dacono City Council votes to formally censure two of its own
On Feb. 13, Wittman and Long, as well as then councilmembers Jim Turini and Jackie Thomas, voted to terminate Euckert, who had worked for the city for more than 20 years, without providing any public notice or an explanation as to why ...
Denver Gazette appeals judge’s decision to let Denver Public Schools keep administrators’ discipline records secret
Denver Public Schools does not want the public to see the discipline records of its administrators — conduct by principals and others that could range from the mundane to the egregious — because it says, and a judge has agreed, it could damage the public’s interest in ensuring a well-run school district ...
Vail seeks to remove confidentiality requirements in legal fight with Vail Resorts
The town’s legal representation filed a motion in the Eagle County District Court requesting that the judge rescind an order that prohibited both parties from speaking publicly about ongoing negotiations in the condemnation case ...