Ouray County Plaindealer: Some folks might be tempted to think the biggest problem with the Ouray Police Department has been solved, because the city fired the chief. They think the trash has been taken out, so to speak.

But something still stinks. The department’s struggles run deeper than the influence of its former leader.

A lack of accountability and transparency is at the root of this agency’s problems, and those issues have come from both within its walls and higher up in city administration.

For example, it took more than four months for us to obtain intelligible public records in a use-of-force complaint involving a teenager, which was filed in February.

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