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Tag: open records
Opening records of disability nonprofits: ‘Impossible.’ Really?
The bill is still alive, but it’s becoming clear that 20 nonprofits serving people with disabilities won’t be covered by the Colorado Open Records...
Proposed school board ethics commission would hear open-meetings, open-records complaints
As a target of last fall’s recall election in Jefferson County, the now former president of the school board hoped to prove his critics...
Parents to lawmakers: Open records of nonprofits serving people with disabilities
Twenty Colorado nonprofits that spend public dollars to serve people with disabilities should be required like government agencies to provide detailed financial records and other...
High Court to Planned Parenthood shooting judge: Explain yourself
The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered a judge to explain why he's keeping certain records in the Planned Parenthood shooting case secret. The High Court gave El Paso District...
Rocky Mountain Human Services: No plans to fight open-records bill
A new bill would force Rocky Mountain Human Services and other organizations serving people with disabilities to open their records. RMHS will not oppose the...
Opinion: A 21st-century open-records law for Colorado
When was the last time you used microfilm or microfiche to find information? Does the phrase “on-line bulletin board” bring to mind that screeching...
Some counties charge thousands of dollars for public inspection of voted-ballot...
This story first appeared on the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition website.
The public can inspect voted ballots in Colorado. So says a state Court of...
House approves foreclosure prevention, vaccine ed; Senate tackles mugshots, CORA fees
Notes from the 76th day of the 2014 session.
A bull market: The rising cost of public records
Many city, county and state government offices are charging increasingly high fees for public documents in a state that helped pioneer the national movement for government transparency and unfettered access to public records.
Capitol Dispatch: Let’s debate this bill, on Snapchat
DENVER -- Lawmakers here Monday affably wrestled with open-records riddles on the way to killing a bill all the Senate Judiciary Committee members nevertheless thought raised important questions.