The Durango Herald: The city of Durango is hiking its records request fees from $30 an hour to $40 an hour.

The city cites an update to the Colorado Open Records Act that allows municipalities to charge higher fees.

An increase in requests this year and last year is driving the need for higher fees, according to the city.

City Clerk Faye Harmer said her office is on track to process over 525 record requests this year, nearly three times the number of requests it processed at the turn of the decade in 2020. As of Tuesday, it had completed 289 requests this year, compared to 189 total completed requests in 2020.

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