From KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs):  Pueblo City Councilwoman Ami Nawrocki said she welcomes an internal investigation into accusations she violated the Colorado Sunshine Law.

In August, Nawrocki and then-council members Sandy Daff and Chris Kaufman were accused of discussing city issues over email instead of inside council chambers, which led Kaufman and Daff to resign.

But Nawrocki said she won’t be the third. “I know for a fact that we did not do anything illegal or unethical,” she said in an exclusive interview with KRDO NewsChannel 13. “There was no serious discussion of actual public policy. It was a way of letting off steam.”

When the accusations first surfaced in August, KRDO NewsChannel 13 contacted a lawyer who specializes in communications law. Steve Zansberg, president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, said that the emails were a breach of state law.

“When three city council members (either all at one time, or in a series of emails) discuss ‘public business’ without providing notice to the public of that ‘meeting,’ and they also deny the public its right to ‘attend’ and observe that meeting, they are violating the Open Meetings Law.  That is absolutely clear.  No decision needs to be made in ‘meetings’ conducted via email; the fact that the council members are discussing public business outside of the public’s view is itself unlawful under plain terms of our state statute,” Zansberg said.

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