Tag: Colorado Freedom Of Information Coalition
-
Colorado open records bill dies in Senate committee
Efforts to overhaul Colorado’s open records law stalled anew. A proposal that would have extended response times for public records requests and added accountability measures for late responses failed to advance out of its first committee and will not move forward this year. The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee rejected Senate Bill 107,…
-
EDITORIAL: Holding Colorado lawmakers accountable — live on TV
It’s hard to fathom how Colorado ended up the only state in the nation not to livestream its state legislative committee hearings. That said, a 5-1 vote just before the end of last year by the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council — the six top leaders of the Colorado House and Senate — at…
-
Colorado legislature votes to make committee hearing livestreams permanent
The executive committee of the legislative council — the six top leaders of the House and Senate — voted 5-1 Wednesday to make permanent the video livestreaming of committee hearings, starting in the 2026 legislative session, which begins Jan. 14. And they managed to do it at a lower cost than initially anticipated. The executive…
-
‘A classic prior restraint’: BusinessDen reporter defies court order to return suppressed civil suit records
BusinessDen and its reporter Justin Wingerter are refusing to comply with a judge’s order to return suppressed court records and permanently delete all electronic copies of them, contending the order violates both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions. Although the Nov. 30 order from Denver District Court Judge Kandace Gerdes “does not purport to prohibit publication…
-
Denver Public Schools superintendent requested secret meeting to discuss policy change
—
by
In the hours after an East High School shooting wounded two administrators, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero requested a secret meeting with the board of education to discuss changing the district’s policy on campus police, The Denver Gazette has learned. The stated purposed of the proposed executive session — which is closed to the…
-
Denver Public School board member to introduce email retention policy
Thirty days after an email is deleted from a Denver Public Schools’ (DPS) account, district officials are unable to retrieve it, stripping potentially important documents from the public record. Board of Education Director Scott Baldermann wants to change that. At least for the board and its staff. Baldermann told The Denver Gazette he had been…
-
Emails lost to public under DPS retention policy | CLASS NOTES
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Open Records Act request was never meant to be a “gotcha.” The Denver Gazette was looking to confirm whether Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education Director Scott Baldermann’s child attends one of the middle schools in an innovation zone he will be…
-
Who’s responsible? Accountability questions remain after Denver County jailhouse death
Unanswered questions about accountability linger a year after a man died in Denver’s downtown detention center, after several days of begging for medical care as he experienced chest pains, trouble breathing, nausea and losing his ability to swallow medication. Medical staff repeatedly sent him back to his cell even as fellow inmates and sheriff’s department…