Three Douglas County residents asked the Colorado Supreme Court to deny the county commissioners’ petition for review of an appellate court ruling that the open meetings law applied to several meetings they convened outside of public view.
A judge last May wrongly decided that the Colorado Open Meetings Law did not apply to several Douglas County Commission meetings held outside of public view, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled.
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 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.
Three Douglas County residents plan to appeal a judge’s order rejecting their claims that county commissioners had “run roughshod” over the Colorado Open Meetings Law by discussing public business in a series of private, unnoticed meetings.
