Complete Colorado: Over my three decades as a journalist, I’ve come to know the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) inside and out and have developed a keen instinct for when governments are trying to avoid transparency by hiding behind exceptions to Colorado’s sunshine laws. Indeed, keeping the government transparent is a big reason why I became a journalist.  And this week has been particularly gratifying.

On March 5 a Denver District Court judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) improperly withheld documents from me as part of an open records request by wrongfully claiming what’s known as “deliberative-process privilege,” which is often just an excuse to withhold information concocted by the legislature.  Now HCPF must turn over the documents they desperately tried to keep secret, as well as pay our attorney’s fees.  It’s a big deal. Here’s the story.

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