State trains judges about financial disclosure requirements weeks after dozens found not complying with law

The Denver Gazette: Colorado’s Judicial Department last week offered two days of training to its more than 350 judges statewide on how to file personal financial disclosure reports, as well as asked the attorney general whether senior judges must also file the public documents just weeks after The Denver Gazette stories disclosed dozens had not.

The training and stern reminder of an annual Jan. 10 deadline for filing comes three months after a Denver Gazette review found that one in six judges — even more when senior judges were added — had not filed the required disclosures last year.

It is a misdemeanor for a judge to knowingly not file the disclosure. The Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline immediately launched its own inquiry into the newspaper’s findings.

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