The Durango Herald: The 26 requests to inspect public records received by Durango School District 9-R in the last two years – just over one per month – does not exactly sound like an onslaught, according to Jeff Roberts, the executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.

But that, along with one persistent, self-styled transparency auditor who has sued school districts statewide, including 9-R, for executive session violations, are the reasons behind the Durango school board’s third legislative priority this year: to limit “extreme or gratuitous” paperwork-generating records requests and legal inquiries.

Although the board’s vice president says the priority is intended to focus only on malicious actors who abuse the system, the statement nonetheless tracks in line with a statewide trend in efforts to build guardrails around the public’s view of government business, Roberts said.

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