Weld County defends sheriff’s office notarization requirement for records request forms
In a letter to a lawyer for 9NEWS and Colorado Public Radio, Weld County defended a sheriff’s office requirement that records request forms be notarized.
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Judge sides with Estes Park hospital district in records redaction lawsuit, Estes Valley Voice will appeal
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.
CFOIC’s 2025 year in review: press freedom battles, a vetoed records bill, a ‘private’ judicial system, auto-deleted Signal texts and a $25.4 million CORA request
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.
Estes Valley Voice argues in court for disclosure of redacted attorney billing statements of hospital district
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.
Attorney for 9NEWS and Colorado Public Radio: Requiring notarization of records request forms an ‘unreasonable hurdle’
A Weld County Sheriff’s Office requirement that records request forms be notarized “creates an arbitrary and unreasonable hurdle” and “does not serve any legitimate government interest,” a letter from an attorney for two news organizations says.
Public Access Committee backs fee increase for judicial branch administrative records
The cost to obtain administrative records of the state’s judicial branch will increase if the Colorado Supreme Court accepts the recommendations of its Public Access Committee.
Colorado appeals court reviewing $13,650 penalty awarded to inmate in public defender records case
The Colorado Court of Appeals will decide whether a judge properly ordered the state public defender to pay prison inmate Eric St. George $13,650 for its “arbitrary and capricious” denial of his request for a policy document.
In existence for just 14 months, the Estes Valley Voice files its third open-government lawsuit
The Estes Valley Voice had been in existence for just four months when it filed its first open-government lawsuit. Now 14 months since it launched in June 2024, the digital news outlet has filed — remarkably — a total of three.
CFOIC/ACLU brief: Fees for bodycam footage not authorized in Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act
Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act does not permit agencies to charge requesters hundreds or thousands of dollars for body-worn camera footage showing possible misconduct by police officers, three briefs submitted to the Colorado of Appeals argue.
Wrap-up: Veto of CORA bill, passage of NIL and wildlife-damage compensation measures marked 2025 Colorado legislative session
Lawmakers made another unsuccessful attempt to weaken the Colorado Open Records Act during the 2025 state legislative session.