Aurora Sentinel: Before and immediately after a trio of judges ruled that a 2022 closed-door vote by Aurora’s City Council violated state law, a council committee met four times in secret, despite the same law requiring it to inform the public about its meetings ahead of time.
This week, the Sentinel asked a district court judge to compel the city to release an electronic recording of the one unannounced committee meeting that was recorded on the grounds that the group once again violated the state open meetings law.
“Under settled Colorado law, when a public body unlawfully closes a public meeting to the public in violation of (the Colorado Open Meetings Law), no (Colorado Open Records Act) exemption applies to the recording of the public meeting,” an April 16 court filing by First Amendment attorney Steve Zansberg reads. “It simply must be disclosed.”
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