Mesa County looking to subvert legal notices requirement
The Mesa County Commissioners directed staff to explore ways to get around a Colorado law that requires governments to post legal notices in newspapers except under certain conditions ...
Why are Denver police using face masks despite a new city law?
A recent city ordinance banned law enforcement from using masks to conceal their identities. But police Chief Ron Thomas said that law didn’t apply because the officers were working undercover and needed to protect their identities ...
Aurora lawmakers creating rules to curb profanity, personal attacks at meetings
Aurora lawmakers are drafting new decorum rules for council meetings that could allow the city to remove disruptive audience members and sanction council members for violating standards of piety ...
Polis signs legislation to increase transparency, ensure Colorado municipal court defendants have access to lawyers
Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law that seeks to ensure municipal court defendants have access to attorneys, along with providing other transparency measures that advocates argue are necessary to ensure civil liberties are protected ...
Inside the decision to release 600 pages of evidence on the Evergreen High School shooting
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said its decision to release hundreds of pages of unusually detailed records tied to the Evergreen High School shooting came down to two things: public transparency and the hope that understanding how the tragedy unfolded could help prevent another one ...
As AI license plate readers spread across Colorado, grassroots movements push back
While cops and public safety leaders say the technology solves crimes and recovers stolen vehicles, critics warn the same system can track people’s daily movements, raising concerns about wrongful arrests, data misuse and federal sharing, including for immigration enforcement ...
Colorado bill puts focus on lawmakers’ safety — and public access to disclosures — in wake of Minnesota shootings
A new bill proposed by Colorado lawmakers would tighten oversight of their own security while removing their personal and financial records from publicly available databases, a move that comes nearly a year after a gunman killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in their home ...
Federal immigration officer charged with assault over confrontation at Durango ICE protest
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is facing charges of assault and criminal mischief in Colorado state court after an investigation into an October 2025 incident in Durango in which videos show he seized and threw a demonstrator’s phone and pushed her to the ground ...
Gov. Jared Polis signs new law sealing name-change records for people younger than 18
The law, which takes effect July 1, will require courts to keep records of petitions for a legal name change from public view if the petitioner is younger than 18 at the time of filing ...
A Colorado bill takes aim at Flock cameras, police surveillance technology. Here’s what’s in it.
State lawmakers are weighing a bill that would place new limits on how government agencies access and use data collected by automated license plate readers — cameras that log the movements of vehicles as they pass by — and bar government officials from sharing the data with outside jurisdictions, with some exceptions ...
