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Public Records Laws September 30, 2020

Pikes Peak Regional Building Department’s records fee policy ‘quite plainly in violation of CORA’

Not only is a $50-per-record research fee not authorized in CORA, the building department’s public records policy makes no mention of providing a free hour to requesters. That is an “unequivocal violation of CORA,” said Steve Zansberg, a First Amendment lawyer and president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. The department’s justification for its research-and-retrieval fee is “simply lacking in any legal basis,” he added.

Melanie Knapp

Open Meetings Laws, Public Records Laws June 26, 2020

Judge: Colorado Springs school board improperly denied CORA request for names and applications of all superintendent finalists

A Colorado Springs school board improperly denied a parent’s Colorado Open Records Act request for the names and application materials of all finalists considered for the superintendent’s job, a judge ruled this week in a case similar to the Boulder Daily Camera’s successful lawsuit against the University of Colorado regents.

Aaron Harber

Open Meetings Laws, Public Records Laws March 22, 2020

Harber: Transparency at the University of Colorado

In an extraordinary decision which can only be described as a public flailing, the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado – the governing board for the entire CU system – overwhelmingly lost a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) lawsuit in which the Daily Camera newspaper sought to force the university to disclose the six candidates who actually were finalists in last year’s search for a new system-wide president.