Contact
(720)295-8006
tips@coloradoindependent.com
The Colorado Independent,2020
All Right Reserved.
Tag: FOI
When Colorado journalists try to pry info out of governments, ‘cost...
Journalists in Colorado so appreciate the Colorado Open Records Act that at least one reporter who worked here chose Cora as his daughter's middle...
Why these Colorado journalists wear masks, and other local media news...
To mask or not to mask. For some Coloradans in the news business, that's not even a question.
From a recent news-behind-the-news item produced by Denver...
Colorado lawmakers sided with police over media about keeping radio chatter secret...
In a state capitol where Democrats control the House, Senate, and governorship, lawmakers sided with law enforcement agencies on efforts to keep some police...
Calling out ‘Dark Content’ in Colorado news outlets Your weekly roundup...
Local news publishers are struggling. We all get that. And over the years they might have made compromises because of economic realities. For some,...
‘Objective’ but ‘also human’ West Slope journalists reflect on sex assault...
This summer, the Swift Communications-owned Steamboat Pilot newspaper wrapped up an eight-week series called "In Our Shoes" about sexual assault in Routt County. "The name for the series originated...
A judge awarded five Colorado news outlets $30,000 in attorney fees...
Looks like taxpayers in conservative El Paso County could see their local government fork over $30,000 in money to five news outlets after a...
Denver Post yanks back its 2014 endorsement of Cory Gardner: ‘We see...
In an eye-opening move, the Denver Post on Thursday reversed its 2014 endorsement of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner after the Republican senator from Yuma stuck with...
Should judges in Colorado be able to seal criminal court records...
In a terse letter, a committee of the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected CFOIC’s call for a uniform standard for sealing court files in...
Willfully violating Colorado’s Open Record Act will no longer be a...
It’s been on the books since the state legislature adopted the Colorado Open Records Act nearly a half-century ago: Anyone who “willfully and knowingly” violates the...
Could more transparency come to Colorado this year?
Colorado's Open Records Act is an old law with some outdated provisions in it.
Last year, state legislation failed that would help align the law...