The Denver Gazette: A Douglas County judge has ruled in favor of the county school district in a records dispute, finding that binders given to newly elected board members were not public records.

District Judge Jeffrey Holmes ruled that the binders, which gained prominence among critics of the board, were “akin to library books,” plaintiff Robert Marshall said in an email Monday.

The binders were apparently part of training given to the school board’s four new members in November, shortly after they were elected but before they were formally seated on the board.

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