Public access to funeral home inspection reports restored in Colorado House bill
A bill advancing in the Colorado legislature would restore public access to funeral home inspection reports with some limitations.
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State board denies title for proposed right-to-know constitutional ballot initiative
A state board declined to set the title for a proposed fall ballot initiative that would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
Five years after lawsuit filed, Colorado Supreme Court orders disclosure of child abuse hotline statistics to The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS
Five years after The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS sued the state Department of Human Services, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered the agency to disclose to the news organizations aggregate child-abuse hotline statistics from three residential care facilities.
Third attempt at lengthening CORA response deadlines for governments dies in Senate committee
State lawmakers narrowly defeated a bill that would have given state and local government entities up to three weeks to fulfill many requests made under the Colorado Open Records Act.
Proposed ballot initiative would add ‘a fundamental right to know’ to Colorado’s constitutional bill of rights
An initiative for the fall ballot filed by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.”
State lawmakers try again to let governments take up to three weeks to fulfill many CORA requests; no journalist exemption in SB 26-107
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.
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.
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.