The Colorado Sun: Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday fired two members of Colorado’s Executive Clemency Advisory Board after the pair publicly revealed that the board had twice rejected former county clerk Tina Peters’ requests for a shortened sentence.

The clemency board is a governor-appointed panel that operates in secret and makes confidential recommendations on pardons and sentence commutations to the governor. Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on June 1, despite objections from prominent members of his own party and several county clerks. 

Polis’ office told The Colorado Sun late Wednesday that the board members violated confidentiality essential to the clemency process. The firings were first reported by The New York Times.

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