The Denver Gazette: What is it that the State Legislature is trying to hide?

A bill that passed out of committee last week lets governments squirrel away important public notices on their own websites rather than publishing them in newspapers and other news sites that actually reach the public. That would mean the public isn’t really notified of much of anything if people don’t regularly look at the thousands of government websites in Colorado.

Which they don’t.

The public notices proposal feels a little like letting the fox guard the henhouse. “When a government publishes notices only on its own website, it becomes both the subject of the notice and the gatekeeper of access,” Colorado Press Association CEO Tim Regan-Porter tells me.

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