Lakewood’s city council is taking steps to ensure more items of local concern are brought forward for discussion and the public can be there for it all.

In a state where access to records leaves much to be desired, Roberts has emerged as the go-to guy for journalists and citizens who need help prying information from reluctant government entities.

Do citizens really possess the right to review the work of elected county clerks after elections are over? The answer seems to be they do if they’ve got a lot of money, and that’s unacceptable.

Colorado was listed as in the bottom-half of all state governments when it comes to public access to information, ethics enforcement and state pension fund management, according to a report released by the Center for Public Integrity.

In Colorado, a public employee’s salary is public information — that simple fact should be enough to convince any government agency to release salary information if asked. Yet, that was not the case in Adams County School District 50 in Westminster, which has long been touted as the district with the highest base salaries for teachers in the metro area.