Ex-Lochbuie officer’s rights not violated with disclosure of misconduct finding, appeals court rules
Colorado's second-highest court concluded that a former law enforcement officer cannot sue his employer under one police accountability law for reporting its misconduct finding to another agency, as required under a different police accountability law ...
Denver Post’s YourHub: Community journalism project’s life and death
YourHub has died at the tender age of twenty and will be buried soon. The community journalism project's final offering was published in the Denver Post on May 29 and its content will vanish from YourHub's online home at the end of June ...
Boulder City Council suspends open comment after Pearl Street attack and rising tensions
For more than a year, residents have used open comment to condemn Israel’s war in Gaza and urge councilmembers to pass a ceasefire resolution, often alleging they bear some responsibility for the conflict ...
What price transparency?
When it comes to criminal-justice documents, what is the price of transparency? In Walsenburg, it appears it will be $35 per hour (with the first hour free) for document review and redaction, plus 25 cents per page for copies ...
Grand County Sheriff’s Office denies record request for Stark case
Requests for documents submitted by Sky-Hi News to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office regarding the death of 7-year-old Isaiah Stark in 2020 were denied for reasons related to child protection laws ...
As trial opens, Mike Lindell’s attorneys say he spread claims about Dominion official because he was ‘triggered’
Attorneys for a former Dominion Voting Systems official said in court that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s false claims about him were fueled in part by Lindell blaming the official for his banishment from conservative television ...
Carman: Colorado takes center stage in the battle to protect free speech
The lawsuit contends, among other things, that the order calling for cancellation of the $535 million annual appropriation by Congress for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting violates First Amendment protections of free speech and constitutes retaliation for coverage the administration didn’t like ...
New EVFPD board members stress importance of transparency and accountability to taxpayers
The court ruled that the Board had violated the law by making a decision in an October executive session meeting to hire Paul Capo as the new chief. By law, decisions cannot be made in executive session meetings ...
Officer fails to use body camera while investigating Thornton’s new chief of police
The Thornton Police Department admitted in a written statement the responding sergeant should have been rolling on his body camera when responding to the chief’s home ...
Noonan: Just what does it take to break Colorado’s Open Meetings Law?
Recently, two district courts have come down on opposite sides on our state’s “sunshine laws.” Our state's Open Meetings Law requires government policy be debated and decided in public with proper notice to allow for public oversight ...
