A judge has ordered the Colorado Office of the State Public Defender to pay a prison inmate a $25-a-day penalty, totaling $13,650, for its “arbitrary and capricious” denial of his request for a policy document.
Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill that would undo open meetings law exemptions for the General Assembly enacted last year and make a host of other changes to Colorado’s government transparency statutes.
A ruling by the state’s highest court means that the bulk of Colorado’s licensing database of law enforcement officers will remain confidential.
Comparing the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board to the dental board and similar state licensing agencies, an attorney for two news organizations urged the Colorado Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling that keeps the state’s database of law enforcement officers confidential.
The Boulder Police Department is not allowed to charge thousands of dollars in fees for body-worn camera footage requested by the public under Colorado’s 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act, a judge ruled.
Despite a 2019 state statute requiring the public disclosure of police internal affairs files in Colorado, the town of Ouray for months released only heavily blacked-out copies of records concerning excessive-force allegations against officers.
CORA’s maximum research-and-retrieval rate will jump to $41.37/hour on July 1, letting state and local government entities in Colorado charge up to 23.2 percent more to process requests for public records.
Are Colorado law enforcement agencies allowed to charge the public thousands of dollars for body-worn camera footage of incidents of alleged officer misconduct?
A proposal to ban the charging of fees for unedited body-worn camera footage, released to the public under the 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act, died when the Colorado House amended and then defeated a controversial whistleblower bill.
A bill narrowly passed by a Colorado House committee includes a provision that prohibits law enforcement agencies from charging fees for unedited body-worn camera footage released to the public under the 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act.
