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 ...
2020年8月30日 · 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 ...
2022年8月24日 · 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 …
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A groundbreaking 2019 law opened records on police internal …
2020年7月15日 · 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 ...
CFOIC’s new online guide to Colorado’s sunshine laws
2021年11月8日 · 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.
No adoption of any proposed rule, regulation, policy, position or formal action shall occur at any meeting closed to the public. This means that “informal decision making” cannot occur outside of a public meeting. State public bodies can go into executive session only after two-thirds of the entire body vote in favor.
The dos and don’ts - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
2014年8月15日 · Colorado's Sunshine Law defines a meeting as “any kind of gathering, convened to discuss public business, in person, by telephone, electronically, or by (any) other means of communication.” This includes emailing, texting, tweeting, instant messaging, Facebook messaging, Snapchatting and forms of communication that haven’t been invented yet.
Judge: Boulder can't demand thousands of dollars to release body …
2024年8月13日 · Gunning agreed, writing “[t]here is no language providing that payment of fees is a prerequisite to the release of BWC footage.” While “it is undisputed” the requested body-camera footage is a criminal justice record, the judge rejected Boulder’s argument for charging Yellow Scene and Orozco under the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act, which lets law enforcement agencies impose ...