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 …
Silverthorne pays $9,500 settlement to ‘First Amendment auditor ...
Aug 30, 2020 · Summit Daily: The town of Silverthorne agreed to pay a settlement of $9,500 after police asked a man filming inside the Silverthorne Post Office to leave. On February 24, a YouTube channel called Amagansett Press posted a 51 minute edited video of a man and his son entering the post office on a “First Amendment audit,” to see if “these folks honor and respect our right to take video and ...
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 ...
A year after the legislature passed a law on police radio encryption ...
Aug 24, 2022 · But a year after House Bill 21-1250 was signed into law, reporters still can’t tune into Denver and Aurora police radio transmissions like they did before both agencies blocked public access — Denver in 2019 and Aurora three years earlier. Although each department has a written policy on radio access, neither has reached an …
A groundbreaking 2019 law opened records on police internal …
Jul 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 ...
Supreme Court weighs arguments that could affect confidentiality …
Sep 24, 2024 · By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director. Comparing the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board to the dental board and similar state licensing agencies, an attorney for two news organizations Tuesday urged the Colorado Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling that keeps the state’s database of law enforcement officers confidential.
Judge: State law protects privacy of those who ask for library …
May 24, 2022 · The judge cited a state statute that protects the confidentiality of library “user records.” He also relied on the Colorado Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling in Tattered Cover v. City of Thornton, which recognized a First Amendment and state constitutional right to purchase books anonymously. “The Court concludes that user in the statute under this analysis is not limited to someone who ...
How the police reform bill enhances public access to body-cam …
Jun 13, 2020 · Police departments and sheriff’s offices around the state have used the discretion afforded them by the CCJRA to sometimes wait months to release body camera footage or to disclose only certain portions. (It took three months for Aurora police to provide recordings of Elijah McClain’s death last August. Pueblo police waited nine months to release video of officers fatally shooting Andrew ...
r lengthy records requests, the paper costs can add up. The CCJRA permits criminal justice agencies to charge the lesser of actual cost and 25 cents per page.88 That number is fairly typical, although it is on the somewhat higher end of the …
When you’re told that ‘no such records exist’
Feb 7, 2019 · CFOIC Executive Director. “No such records exist.”. A response like that from a court clerk, a prosecutor’s office or a criminal justice agency can be puzzling for journalists and members of the public who are certain that a case file in fact does exist on a person they’re asking about. Maybe the arrest made the news and charges were filed.