From The Greeley Tribune: The Colorado General Assembly recently sent a bill to the governor’s desk that is supposed to lower the hourly fees a government can charge a resident or a journalist for researching and gathering open records. House Bill 1193 has good intentions, and may work as intended more often than not.

Politically, of course, it’s also a good bill for lawmakers to get behind as efforts to increase governmental transparency cut sharply across partisan lines. Both parties, generally speaking, do want citizens to have more access to government records.

However, while HB 1193 may give the appearance that the march for more and easier access to your government through open records is moving onward and upward, a spate of recent stories also shows that some areas of accessing records are in serious trouble.

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