Elbert County News: An Elbert County mother, Jessica Capsel, recently filed a lawsuit against the Elizabeth School District alleging the school board violated open-meetings law. The incident that led to the suit occurred at the Sept. 11 board meeting, when the Elizabeth School Board passed a “Resolution to Keep Elizabeth Schools Open and Education Unrestricted,” opposing mask and vaccine mandates.

Capsel, who moved to the area in 2019, has two children and holds degrees in writing and public health but currently works as a child nutritionist. Wherever she’s lived, she has always tried to pay attention to school board meetings and participate in the district. “You can’t just assume that the school board is doing things in the best interest of the students,” she said.

Capsel believes the district violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law (part of the Colorado Sunshine Law) by adding the resolution to the agenda at the last minute, therefore not giving parents or community members a chance to read and respond to the resolution beforehand.

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