Guide to Colorado’s Open Records and Open Meetings Laws
Welcome to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s “Guide to Colorado’s Open Records and Open Meetings Laws.”Previously published in booklet format, this online version of CFOIC’s sunshine laws guide is more comprehensive, searchable, indexed by topic and kept up to date.
Denver Gazette and DPS argue in Court of Appeals over disclosure …
Oct 9, 2024 · The Denver School Leaders Association, which represents principals and assistant principals, intervened in the case after the newspaper appealed, contending the FRISK disciplinary memos cannot be disclosed because of the statute on educator evaluation records.
Supporters of Colorado Springs’ Black mayor faked burning cross, …
Nov 14, 2024 · The Denver Post: Three supporters of Colorado Springs’ Black mayor set up a burning cross and spray-painted a racist slur on one of his campaign signs during the 2023 mayoral runoff in an attempt to help then-candidate Yemi Mobolade get elected, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Derrick Bernard Jr., 35, Ashley Blackcloud, 40, and Deanna West, 38 were indicted in early November on ...
Amendment H: What to expect if judicial discipline measure passes
Oct 17, 2024 · Colorado Politics: Voters in this election will decide whether to modify Colorado’s current system of judicial discipline through a proposed constitutional measure, Amendment H, intended to increase the transparency and independence of the disciplinary process. The legislature referred the amendment to the ballot following a series of committee hearings.
Colorado judicial branch unveils free online database of appellate ...
Mar 5, 2024 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. As required by a bill signed into law in 2022, the Colorado Judicial Department on Tuesday unveiled a new website that gives Coloradans free access to published high-court opinions dating back to 1864. “This new website, offering free and easy access to every opinion by both of Colorado’s appellate courts, provides anybody with important ...
City of Boulder ballot Question 2D – executive sessions
Oct 7, 2024 · Boulder Weekly: This measure would allow Boulder City Council to hold executive sessions to meet and discuss certain legal and personnel matters, as allowed under Colorado law. Colorado law forbids more than two members of Boulder City Council from meeting to discuss public business outside of an official meeting; that is, one that the public is made aware of in advance and allowed to attend.
New insider complaint alleges widespread coverups in Colorado …
Oct 27, 2024 · The Denver Gazette: In an elaborate and precisely laid-out missive that stretches more than 330 pages — with better than 3,100 pages of additional exhibits — a complaint filed with three state commissions and the FBI alleges a far-reaching and ongoing conspiracy within Colorado’s judiciary designed to conceal years of alleged lying, retaliation and misuse of public funds that began when ...
Taking another look at Ohio’s low-cost process for resolving open ...
Nov 8, 2024 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. In 2018, this blog reported on a then-two-year-old process in Ohio that gives requesters of public records a low-cost way to fight denials in court. A new research paper prepared for the National Freedom of Information Coalition looks at how well the process works.
Residents’ lawsuit seeks to hold Elbert County commissioners …
Sep 19, 2024 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. The Elbert County commissioners should be held personally liable for unlawfully approving new contracts for the county administrator and county attorney outside of public view and ordered to reimburse Elbert’s treasury for those expenditures, a lawsuit filed Thursday by five residents says.
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