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.
Rep. Matt Soper
Colorado House bill aims to make sure parolee risk assessment records are open to the public
A bipartisan bill in the Colorado legislature is aimed at making sure the public regains access to records used by 9NEWS to show errors in the way the state screens the risk levels of parolees.
Lawmakers drop effort to override veto of CORA bill that would have let governments take more time to process requests — except for those made by journalists
Gov. Jared Polis’ veto of a bill to extend Colorado Open Records Act response deadlines for requests made by the public and businesses will stand after legislators abandoned their effort to override it.
Concerned about creating ‘three classes of open records requests,’ Polis vetoes CORA bill
Writing that “all legitimate requests for public transparency” under the Colorado Open Records Act “should be treated equally under the law,” Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday vetoed a bill that gave government entities more time to respond to requests made by the public and businesses but kept deadlines the same for journalists.
Colorado legislature passes bill letting governments take more time to process records requests — except for those made by journalists
A bill that extends Colorado Open Records Act response times for public and commercial requesters is headed to Gov. Jared Polis.
State legislators introduce new measure to extend CORA response deadlines
A state senator is trying again to curb what she has referred to as the “abuse” of the Colorado Open Records Act by certain records requesters.
Wrap-up: Tally of open-government losses in 2024 Colorado legislative session could’ve been higher
It could have been worse. While open-government losses far outnumbered wins in the 2024 session of the Colorado General Assembly, the death of a burdensome Colorado Open Records Act bill in the closing days helped make the final tally a little less one-sided.
Bill to address CORA ‘abuse’ dies in state Senate committee
State senators killed a bill that would have given state and local government entities more time to respond to Colorado Open Records Act requests to address what proponents called the “abuse” of CORA.
Colorado judicial branch unveils free online database of appellate decisions dating back to statehood and earlier
As required by a bill signed into law in 2022, the Colorado Judicial Department unveiled a new website that gives Coloradans free access to published high-court opinions dating back to 1864.
Amended CORA bill requires a government entity to prove a records requester is ‘vexatious’
A reworked Colorado Open Records Act bill endorsed by a House committee shifts the legal burden of proving that a requester of records is “vexatious” to a government entity’s records custodian.