Douglas County News-Press: All three Douglas County commissioners attended a private Parker Conservatives gathering at Deep Space in downtown Parker on April 2 to talk about their home-rule proposal, in a meeting that state law indicates should have been open to the public. The county spokesperson says there was no intention to hide anything at an event that explicitly advertised the fact that the general public and press were excluded from attending.

“I can say for certain there was no intention to deceive or meet in private,” said Caroline Frizell, spokesperson for Douglas County. “This was just another opportunity for them to talk about something that is important to them.”

Frizell said the Board of County Commissioners members are invited to places all the time, sometimes as a group and sometimes individually. 

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