District college boards seek permission to make decisions via email
The governing boards of Colorado’s two local district community colleges want state lawmakers’ permission to make decisions via email.
The governing boards of Colorado’s two local district community colleges want state lawmakers’ permission to make decisions via email.
A state Senate committee acquiesced to First Amendment concerns expressed by the news media and private investigators about a bill that, as passed by the House, would have made it a crime to photograph or record someone who has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”
State lawmakers killed legislation that would have let Colorado counties publish fiscal information on their websites rather than in newspapers.
Proponents are circulating petitions for Initiative 124, which would expand Colorado’s Sunshine Law by requiring school boards to let the public observe collective bargaining negotiations.
Fees for public records, protecting the confidential sources of journalists, the Open Meetings Law. These weren’t the topics that grabbed the biggest headlines during the during the 2014 legislative session. But that doesn’t diminish their importance.