Aurora Sentinel: Clearly, the Aurora City Council has yet to grasp the secret to success in governing: No secret meetings.

The hard and principled truth behind that was driven home last week when the Colorado Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion that the Aurora City Council violated state law when it voted in secret last year to end censure proceedings against Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky.

It’s the second time a Colorado court has made such a finding after the Sentinel sued in an effort to force Aurora to make public recordings of the illegal meeting. The lawsuit was made possible by a local collaborative effort among news media, the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition and the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press.

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