Boulder law enforcement officials release partial footage of December fatal police shooting
The City of Boulder, meanwhile, has not yet provided Boulder Reporting Lab unedited body camera footage of any police shooting in the last year in response to multiple requests ...
Zansberg and Roberts: Lawmakers pulled the shades on Colorado open meetings law. During Sunshine Week.
Irony is the juxtaposition of one conceptual proposition with a directly contrary reality, like a “vegetarian butcher” or something that’s “seriously funny.” Or the swift enactment — during Sunshine Week — of a new state law that lets members of the Colorado General Assembly discuss and formulate public policy outside of public view ...
Editorial: Governor enacts the the Smoke-Filled-Room Law
By signing this bill into law, Polis destroyed the public’s right to full transparency. He, more than the Legislature’s predictably extreme leadership, took from the people their basic right to watch a government in action. So much for “Of, By and For the People.” ...
Cherry Creek schools board says it will begin live-streaming meetings in April
Reportedly the only large school district not already live-streaming school board meetings, the Cherry Creek school board will begin web-broadcasting a portion of their regular meetings in April ...
Colorado Supreme Court declines to review Boulder defamation case
The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to review a defamation lawsuit that former Boulder City Council candidate Steven Rosenblum filed against local political activists, including Eric Budd ...
Weld County commissioners remove public comment from future board meeting agendas
The section for public comments will not appear on future Weld County commissioner meeting agendas after Chairman Kevin Ross sent out an email citing abuse of public comment during a March 6 commissioner meeting ...
Editorial: Municipal courts lack transparency, need online access
In the interests of full transparency with the public, it’s time that municipal courts throughout the state open their operations to the public in the same manner as district courts throughout the state already have ...
Effort to limit comments at Durango City Council meetings met with resistance
Durango City Council tabled a discussion about whether to restrict public comments to “city business” after about 30 residents filled council chambers demanding councilors pass a symbolic resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war ...
Peif: Transparency for the win; judge orders state health agency to turn over emails
On March 5 a Denver District Court judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) improperly withheld documents from me as part of an open records request by wrongfully claiming what’s known as “deliberative-process privilege,” which is often just an excuse to withhold information concocted by the legislature. ...
Del Norte Town Board votes to send open meetings case to Colorado Supreme Court
The Del Norte Town Board voted 4-3 to appeal the decision made by the Colorado Court of Appeals in the case of former Trustee Laura Anzalone vs. The Town of Del Norte to the Colorado State Supreme Court during a special meeting on March 6 ...
