The Colorado Sun: Douglas County commissioners broke state open meeting laws when they adopted resolutions calling for an election to establish a home rule charter, three residents and former elected leaders across political spectrums said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. 

The lawsuit asks a district court judge to order the board of county commissioners to stop violating Colorado’s open meetings laws and to invalidate previous decisions that were “unlawfully made in the proverbial shadows of a smoke-filled back room,” the plaintiffs wrote in a statement Tuesday. 

Bob Marshall, a Democrat, Lora Thomas, a Republican, and Julie Gooden, who is registered as unaffiliated, filed the suit Tuesday against the three-person board, who allegedly held meetings and made decisions behind closed doors since December without informing the public.

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