Guide to Colorado’s Open Records and Open Meetings Laws
WEBThe 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. § 24-6-402 (3) (a) and C.R.S. § 24-6-402 (4).
WEBTemplate for Colorado Public Records Request [Your Name] [Street Address] [City, State ZIP Code] [Date] [Name of Custodian of Records] [Title]
Blog - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
WEBMcIntyre and Wiggins merit CFOIC’s Jean Otto award for their ‘dogged and dog-inspired’ reporting. The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition presented its Jean Otto Friend of Freedom Award to Erin McIntyre and Mike Wiggins, owners and co-publishers of the weekly Ouray County Plaindealer since 2019. Open Meetings Laws August 15, 2024.
Staff - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
WEBExecutive Director Jeffrey A. Roberts worked in journalism and public policy before coming to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition in July 2013.. He was at The Denver Post from 1984-2007 as a reporter, assistant city editor and data journalism specialist on The Post’s projects team and later spent four years at the University of Denver’s Center for Colorado’s Economic Future.
CFOIC’s new online guide to Colorado’s sunshine laws
WEBNov 8, 2021 · The guide is free to use. If you find it valuable, please consider making a donation to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. CFOIC is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that relies on gifts, grants and membership dues. Your donations are tax-deductible. Paper copies of the 2019 edition of the guide are still available for $2 apiece.
A groundbreaking 2019 law opened records on police internal …
WEBJul 15, 2020 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. Fourteen months before Colorado lawmakers passed the sweeping law enforcement accountability and transparency bill recently signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, they approved a measure to shine a light on how police departments police themselves.. House Bill 19-1119 was groundbreaking, introducing a statewide standard for the disclosure of ...
Colorado appellate court sets standard for libel plaintiffs to …
WEBOct 27, 2022 · The framework adopted by the Court of Appeals incorporates arguments presented in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in January by attorney Steve Zansberg on behalf of the Colorado Press Association and the Colorado Broadcasters Association.. To prevail on a libel claim addressing a matter of legitimate public interest, “the plaintiff must prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that ...
Even with new POST database and reforms, Colorado is in the …
WEBSep 18, 2023 · CORA or CCJRA? The lower courts upheld a central claim by Colorado’s attorney general that POST, as a licensing agency for law enforcement officers, is itself a “criminal justice agency” and thus subject to the far more restrictive Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act (CCJRA) rather than the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA).. CORA entitles requesters to copies of public records kept in ...
During the pandemic, Colorado’s judicial branch offers (temporary ...
WEBJul 17, 2020 · With the Colorado Supreme Court library in downtown Denver “closed until further notice” because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s judicial branch is finally letting anyone pull up civil case filings on a personal computer at …
WEB2 Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition | www.coloradofoic.org | [email protected] mechanism for policing whether public bodies have complied with their obligation to vote whether to discuss the specific topics outside of public view, and (3) to help public officials avoid straying into topics that are not authorized for
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