Daily life has become inseparable from new technologies. Our phones and tablets let us shop from the couch, track how many miles we run, and keep in touch with friends across town and around the world - benefits barely possible a decade ago. With r ...

For 48 hours, more than 900 Canadian entrepreneurs, innovators and amateur developers from across the country combed though raw federal data. Their goal: Translating that information into an app, with a chance to win $25,000. The government’s ...

NFOIC member the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government is asking Gov. Susana Martinez about the administration’s policy for handling information requests from the Legislature’s watchdog committees. The questions were raised in respo ...

Poudre School District on Thursday said its open records policy complies with Colorado law but “sometimes employees do not follow” policies set out by the administration ...

Nineteen of the state’s 22 district attorneys offices charged with enforcing Colorado’s laws are not complying with a 2012 law that requires reports on criminal offenses committed by K-12 students on school grounds or at school events. The reporting requirements of the law were enacted to measure the effects of eliminating the so-called zero-tolerance school-to-prison pipeline ...

We hear a lot from the City Council about the need to include the public in nearly all matters of public process. It's an attractive, popular and ethical message that deserves support ...

Fifth Judicial District Judge Wayne Patton ordered on Monday, March 24, that the Lake County Commissioners release the tapes for a pair of “executive sessions” the board held on Feb. 19 and 20, 2013 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the Delaware Court of Chancery's appeal of a federal appellate court ruling declaring its confidential arbitration program unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's refusal to grant certiorari ends the Chancery Court's arbitration program after three years of litigation and two federal court decisions. In an order issued Monday, the high court said it would not grant certiorari in Delaware Coalition for Open Government v. Strine, but did not provide more information. read more ...

The Black Forest Fire Board says it spent a substantial portion of $117,000 on an outside investigation, public relations and attorneys after El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa raised questions about Chief Bob Harvey's response during the Black Forest Fire ...

Colorado Springs City Council sure has a lot to discuss behind closed doors ...