From The Denver Post:  While touting transparency, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s staff delayed access to state appointment records and asked for hundreds of dollars to provide additional documentation of the people who moved from protected to at-will positions.

The Post initially asked for Hickenlooper’s appointees earlier this year through a records request, but Ben Figa, Hickenlooper’s deputy legal counsel, invoked the seven-day business extension allowed under open records laws. State law requires governments to produce records not readily available in three days but gives additional time for large requests.

“The request requires reviewing a large volume of records,” wrote Figa, who is one of the new at-will employees hired in the governor’s office last year. But minutes before the end of the seven-day extension, Figa responded to the request by directing The Post to a public state website that listed the governor’s cabinet. And that website hadn’t even been updated with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment executive director Lawrence Wolk’s September appointment.

When asked why it took two weeks to find a public state website, Figa responded: “We looked at a lot of files to make sure there were no responsive documents.”

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