Colorado mandated reporting on police violence, five years later, the data is mostly useless
Five years later, some of Colorado's largest departments say computer problems have prevented their full data from being presented by the state. Other departments just haven’t provided any information and the state has taken no steps to force it ...
Pomerance: The council should use open comment to engage with the rest of us
Let’s return open comment to being a place where community members feel valued, and a time where new issues can be brought and discussed and recurring ones resurfaced ...
Boulder councilmembers eye further changes to open comment to prevent disruptions related to war in Gaza
The Boulder City Council directed city staff to draft new rules on open comment. It is the latest attempt to keep meetings running smoothly following more than a year of disruptions, many involving calls for the council to take a stand against the war in Gaza and some including verbal attacks on Jewish councilmembers ...
Judge blocks Colorado governor from ordering state official to provide information to ICE
A Denver judge blocked the Colorado governor’s office from forcing a state employee to hand over records to federal immigration authorities on 35 sponsors of unaccompanied immigrant children in the state ...
The missing pieces in Boulder’s police force data
This limited data does not compare to the in-depth information dashboards released by other Colorado police departments, and it does not reflect the thorough data sets that advocacy groups have been asking the city to share ...
Attorney claims City of Florence violated Open Meetings Law during June 10 special meeting
Colorado attorney Matt Roane has brought another lawsuit against the City of Florence, positing that the city council violated Colorado’s Open Meetings Law during a June 10 special meeting ...
Divided Colorado Supreme Court: Criminal trial livestreams not enough to satisfy public trial right
A slim majority of the Colorado Supreme Court decided that livestreaming criminal proceedings without also opening the physical courtroom to spectators may violate the constitutional guarantee of a public trial ...
Proposed policy would require Denver Public Schools to report how much it spends on lawsuits
The proposal says the district would have to provide the school board with a list of lawsuits DPS is involved in and a tally of how much it spends on external legal costs ...
Colorado has been expanding some of its privacy protections, but how do they work, and who qualifies?
An individual can remove information like their address, how frequently they’ve voted and party registration from the public database. But there’s a catch: legally, that option is only open to people if they believe their information could be used to harass or harm them ...
Trump bill could cut $4.5 million from Colorado public media
President Donald Trump’s request for Congress to cut $9.4 billion in spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting appears to put Colorado public media at a potential loss of more than $4.5 million in annual funding ...
