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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…
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Kefalas on open records bill: An ‘interesting journey’
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Opening the hood of Colorado’s Open Records Act to change out even a few parts is a massive undertaking – too many of the components in this aging machine are moving. Aiming to make some long-overdue digital-era updates to CORA, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, started that process months ago and has been wrestling…
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Colorado’s closely watched digital database open records bill advances
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A long-coming update to the Colorado Open Records Act that aims to make government digital datasets more readily accessible to and manageable for the public advanced with bipartisan support in the State Senate Tuesday night. Senate Bill 40, sponsored by Fort Collins Democrat John Kefalas, is the latest version of a proposal that has been…
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Stone: A data collector’s perspective on the pros & cons of open records
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Data is ever-growing. The current rate is exponential. In fact, 90 percent of the world’s existing data was created in the last two years alone. As recent as 1990, if you needed to know what year Colorado became a state, you’d probably have to open and read an encyclopedia to obtain the result. Today, a…
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Drama-laden open records bill survives another hearing
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A bill aimed at modernizing Colorado’s Open Records Act has survived its first Senate hearing – but with an amendment that could mean trouble down the road. The GOP-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted 4-1 Wednesday to send Senate Bill 40 by Democratic Sen. John Kefalas to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill would, in…
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Kefalas confident privacy issues can be resolved in bill to modernize public records access
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State Sen. John Kefalas says he hopes that an amendment he plans to introduce in committee Wednesday will take care of the bulk of the privacy concerns raised over legislation he’s sponsoring that would require government agencies to produce public records in searchable digital formats. “I happen to be a person of faith,” the Fort…
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Scott says hometown newspaper trying to silence his free speech over Trump
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A political quarrel erupted earlier this month, garnering the attention of national media, after a state Republican lawmaker accused his hometown newspaper of publishing “fake news” and was subsequently threatened with a lawsuit. At the center of the fray: Sen. Ray Scott, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and the delay of a hearing for Senate…
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Kefalas on database open records bill: ‘We’re ready to engage’
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State Sen. John Kefalas has been working for years to open state databases to the public through the Colorado Open Records Act. His latest bill on the topic was scheduled for a hearing Monday, but news came hours before the hearing was set to begin that Kefalas would have to wait another week to start…
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The Hot Sheet – The savvy pick: One W. Stapleton, Trump passes the joint, the gavel falls on transparency, Miami wishes it were Denver and … MORE!
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VOL. 01 NO. 201 | DECEMBER 8, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | ©2016 DENVER – Good morning holiday shoppers … Just two more weekends of manic buying before Christmas Day. Yippee! Of course, it’s also the time of year when we’re over-scheduled with office parties, block parties, decorating parties, school parties … every kind of party.…