Polly Lawrence isn’t backing down from her fight to make members of the judicial branch play by the same rules as everyone else, at least when it comes to open records.

“It’s just so interesting that one branch of government thinks they should be held to a different standard,” the Republican state rep from Roxborough Park told the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, according to a blog post by executive director Jeffrey A. Roberts. “We don’t let the executive branch write their own rules.”

In the last legislative session, Lawrence sponsored House Bill 1346 to level the open-records playing field for government and courts. She told the open-records organization she’ll try again in the next session, which begins Jan. 11.

Lawrence contends it’s not fair or transparent for the state judicial system to exempt itself from the Colorado Open Records Act when it comes to court files regarding its own employees, a move made in 2012.

While it might be within the Supreme Court’s purview to administer the state court system, it is lawmakers’ responsibility to write the laws the high court administers, Lawrence has said.

The Democratic majority on the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee killed her bill in April.

“We’re supposed to be co-equal branches of government,” Lawrence told the Freedom of Information Coalition, “and I believe transparency in government should be our highest goal.”