Complete Colorado: Majority Democrats in the legislature continue to chip away at government transparency, with Governor Polis vetoing a recent attempt at curbing public access to open records. In the meantime, at least one Division I college in Colorado already makes it as difficult as possible to obtain public records with any kind of ease or consistency.
Complete Colorado learned of the University of Northern Colorado’s (UNC) cumbersome and convoluted policies while trying to obtain records detailing the cost to the university for a March 21st rally on the UNC campus featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York.
The rally was part of the pair’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, reportedly drawing thousands of people to the school’s Bank of Colorado Arena.
Getting those details proved to be more difficult than the records request was worth. Although the policies are legal under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), UNC has established time consuming and obsolete options for filing open records requests between the public and the university’s records.
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