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Colorado Supreme Court finds judge wrongly disclosed report about troubled child welfare office
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A Washington County judge should not have disclosed a report about potential misconduct in the local child welfare agency to the state office charged with investigating the child protection system, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In addition to finding that District Court Judge Charles M. Hobbs had already given up his jurisdiction over…
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Colorado justices clarify threshold for accessing government files in child neglect cases
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed Washington County’s request to apply a tougher standard for parents who seek to access government documents in child neglect cases, instead adopting the more lenient threshold for civil proceedings. The ruling makes it easier for a father and mother in an ongoing custody case to obtain records Washington…
