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Six ways to modernize the Colorado Open Meetings Law

Below are some ideas for additional changes that favor government transparency and the notion that governmental proceedings could be made more accessible to more people without imposing unreasonable burdens on public bodies. These proposed updates are gleaned from the nearly 7,600 inquiries to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s FOI hotline over the past 13 years.


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.