Government Websites in 5 Cities and Counties Win Vision Internet “What’s Next” Awards for Online Innovation
Vision Internet, innovators in online government, today announced the winners of its inaugural “What’s Next” Awards competition, which recognizes local government websites for excellence in five categories: transparency, citizen eng ...
My mystifying journey into the world of FOIA (part 2)
Last week, I invited readers along on my journey through the Freedom of Information Act via one record request filed May 20. I asked the Department of the Army for records of a government contractor who had been blacklisted in April for some kind of ...
Duggan: Public access to council email gets easier
Fort Collins has made accessing email from City Council members a lot easier. It can be done anywhere, any time thanks to the magic of computer technology ...
Editorial: School superintendent should reveal punishment of upperclassmen
Five Moffat County High School coaches were asked to resign following an alleged hazing incident that took place at football camp from June 18 to 20 in Evanston, Wyoming. The coaches were asked to resign after the school district completed its investigation of the coaches and students. What’s still unknown is the disciplinary action the school district will take against the upperclassmen who allegedly hazed freshmen ...
Aurora seeks to release report on theater shooting emergency response
The city of Aurora has filed a petition with the court to allow it to release a comprehensive review of how the city responded to the Aurora theater shooting ...
Colorado gets an “F” for accessibility of executive orders
What do weather disasters, new educational mandates and drilling for gas on state land have in common? All of them can be regulated through the power of the governor’s executive order ...
City of Colorado Springs did not violate Open Records Act responding to request from Gazette
The City of Colorado Springs did not violate the Colorado Open Records Act in a January request for records by The Gazette for email correspondence ...
Editorial: Disdain for transparency from Greeley school board members nothing to smile about
When the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education forced out Superintendent Ranelle Lang in a negotiated resignation this June, there was precious little discussion — at least in public — about the move, which cost taxpayers more than $250,000 ...
Opinion: S.C. Supreme Court allows government to hide public information
If the police shoot a man, saying that he was shooting at them, but the autopsy shows the man had no gunshot residue on his hands and that he was shot in the back, don’t you think the public has a right to know about it? If it had happened in ...
NJ judge finds state wrongly denied man seeking requests for public records
A New Jersey judge ruled Monday that Gov. Chris Christie's administration must honor an activist's public records requests for requests filed by others. The decision from Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson finds fault with the state's recent strategy of denying such requests on the grounds that people who ask for government records have a privacy right. A state government lawyer said that people can use government records requests to explore lawsuits or dig up dirt on political opponents — things that Jacobson said need not be confidential. read more ...
