The Pagosa Springs Sun: On Sept. 15, Monica M. Márquez, the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, put out a directive temporarily pausing required livestreams of criminal court proceedings in state trial courts — a move in contradiction with state law, as well as previous court directives.

In her order, Marquez outlines several issues that have surfaced since the directive and law were put into place, writing, “Unfortunately, in the years since these two authorities took effect, the livestreaming technology that was intended to promote access to the courts has been subverted as a tool of disruption, disparagement, harassment, and private economic gain that is rapidly eroding the proper functioning of our system of justice.”

Marquez states that, despite the warnings to not record the proceedings in any way, the technology is being abused, with videos, sometimes altered, making their way to platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebo

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