Zornio: House Bill 1296 is bad. Coloradans need more access to public records, not less.

The Colorado Sun: There’s a new buzzword in Colorado politics: vexatious.

If that word wasn’t on your 2024 bingo card, join the club. Yet here we are, so let’s go down the rabbit hole of House Bill 1296, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Reps. Cathy Kipp, D-Fort Collins, Matt Soper R-Delta, and Sen. Janice Marchman D-Loveland.

As defined in the bill summary, House BIll 1296 seeks to modify the Colorado Open Records Act — CORA for short — to “lessen the burdens of responding to records requests for custodians of records” by making requests for public records more timely and restricting. 

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