Guide to Colorado’s Open Records and Open Meetings Laws
The open meetings law states: “No adoption of any proposed policy, position, resolution, rule, regulation, or formal action (except the approval of executive session minutes) shall occur at any executive session that is not open to the public.”. C.R.S. § 24-6 …
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 ...
Public Data Online - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
Public Safety Research & Statistics: Charts and tabular data on crime, arrest and incarceration rates, downloadable in PDF and Excel formats. Criminal History Checks: Search the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s arrest-record database. The fee for each name searched is $6.85. Sex Offender Registry: Searchable database maintained by the ...
Court of Appeals reverses judge’s CORA rulings that allowed a …
Oct 19, 2022 · The published opinion pertains to two CORA exemptions. One requires records custodians to deny requests for government records containing “privileged information,” which the Colorado Supreme Court has said includes attorney-client privileged information. The other concerns the deliberative process privilege, which the legislature codified in the open records law following a 1998 Colorado ...
C.R.S. § 24-72-204(3)(A)(III). Furthermore, if the record requested is a letter of reference concerning employment, licensing, or issuance of permits, the custodian is directed to deny access to the person in interest, a. to well as the general pu. lic. C.R.S. § 24-72-204(3)(a).The Colorado Supreme Court has held that the “letters of ...
CFOIC report: Comparing Colorado with other states on public …
Jun 9, 2022 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. A new analysis of open records laws in all 50 states highlights several ways Colorado legislators could make criminal justice records more accessible to journalists and the public.
Amendment H: Judicial Discipline Board, explained
October 5, 2024. Colorado Public Radio: The measure would create an independent board to preside over ethical misconduct hearings involving judges and hand down consequences. It would also increase public access to judicial discipline proceedings and records. Because it changes the state constitution, Amendment H will require at least 55 ...
News - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
Nov 9, 2024 · Denver judge rejects lawsuit seeking hand-counting of ballots in dozens of counties after passwords leak. District Judge Kandace Gerdes ruled that there was no evidence that elections systems had been compromised by the inadvertent release of some passwords on the secretary of state’s website. Gerdes issued the order roughly five hours before ...
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.
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.