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Colorado Supreme Court to hear cases on open records, illegal sentencing, insurance dispute
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will hear appeals in multiple cases, including the question of whether the public may access information about law enforcement officers who have been decertified for misconduct. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to review an appeal. Among the cases granted, the justices took…
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Denver Public Schools can’t say how many justice-involved students attend public school
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Denver Public Schools does not have a mechanism to track students involved with the juvenile justice system, The Denver Gazette has learned. And that’s a problem, community members and parents said. The revelation takes on new meaning in the aftermath of an East High School shooting last week that left two administrators wounded and the…
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Appeals court sides with restrictive interpretation of open records law
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Colorado’s second-highest court has settled on a narrower interpretation of the state’s open records law, deciding a former paralegal for the city of Loveland could not have access to emails in which she was the subject. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals last month reversed a Larimer County judge who believed that even…
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Colorado state senator used text message to avoid open records scrutiny
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In the week prior to Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola announcing that he was flipping political parties, the soon-to-be-Democrat said in a text message to his soon-to-be party leader that he would share certain information with him but wanted to avoid the state’s email system so as not to leave a paper trail subject to public…
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CPR sues coroner for refusing to release amended autopsy of Elijah McClain
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Colorado Public Radio filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Adams County coroner for refusing to release an amended autopsy of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being violently restrained by police and sedated in 2019. Colorado Public Radio reported that coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan changed the official autopsy report for McClain after receiving…
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Colorado Open Records Act digital update bounds over last legislative hurdles
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The Colorado Open Records Act this year will receive a long-overdue digital-era update after Senate Bill 40 on Wednesday ended its switchback journey over the entire course of the 120-day legislative session Wednesday, finishing in the Senate with an against-all-odds unanimous vote of support. “No one would have guessed it would receive all 35 votes…
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Wheat Ridge demands return of records detailing billionaire’s stake in liquor giant Applejack
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Saying the city released records it shouldn’t have, an attorney representing the city of Wheat Ridge is demanding the immediate return of dozens of pages of documents concerning a 2014 liquor license application for a new owner of Applejack Wine and Spirits obtained in March under the Colorado Open Records Act, The Colorado Statesman has…
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Harber: Logic long overdue for open records
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It’s long overdue for one of the absurd practices of some Colorado government offices to end. Specifically, Senate Bill 40 has been proposed in the Colorado General Assembly to close a loophole created by officials and bureaucrats avoiding their responsibilities to provide citizens access to the information which everyone always has agreed is public. When…
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Electronic records bill gets Colorado House hearing
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A bill to modernize Colorado’s Open Records Act gets its first hearing in the Democrat-led House Monday, with Democrats pushing for a measure that presumes the public is entitled to access government records in ways that can be analyzed by computer. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Dan Pabon and Sen. John Kefalas, would require government…
