State lawmakers are trying for the third straight year to give state and local government entities up to three calendar weeks to fulfill many Colorado Open Records Act requests.
Lawyers for a prison inmate and the Office of the State Public Defender argued in the Court of Appeals over whether OSPD is subject to the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act or the judicial branch’s records rules.
But what makes all judicial records, both criminal and civil, presumptively open to public inspection? Why should the public be allowed to inspect court filings in routine, mundane cases like probate, trust and estates, employment, and domestic relations cases?
The public hospital district in Estes Park is not required to redact privileged information from attorney billing invoices and release non-confidential portions to the Estes Valley Voice news site, a judge ruled.
A judge in a “private” judicial system has largely denied a motion from the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition to lift a suppression order that has made an entire divorce case file and the order itself off-limits to the public.
Three months after the Colorado Supreme Court declared the Aurora Sentinel to be a “citizen” under the open meetings law, the newspaper is back in district court in the same case trying to win the disclosure of a city council executive session recording from almost four years ago.
Coloradans fought for press freedom and freedom of information in 2025 in settings as small as the Eastern Plains town of Bennett and as big as the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
A Larimer County District Court judge will decide whether the Colorado Open Records Act requires a public hospital district to redact privileged information from attorney billing invoices and release the public portions to the Estes Valley Voice news site.
The Colorado Supreme Court established a two-step test for determining whether challenged speech or conduct is covered by a 2019 statute designed to protect Coloradans from meritless lawsuits that target free expression.
A judge made a “painfully obvious” legal error in ruling last May that the Douglas County Commission did not discuss public business during 14 meetings held outside of public view, three county residents say in a brief filed with the Colorado Court of Appeals.
