Tag: transparency
Lawmakers — again — consider subjecting Colorado’s judicial branch to open...
For the third consecutive year, a committee of lawmakers discussed whether the administrative records of the state’s judicial branch should be subject to the...
Indy takes fight over Brauchler’s office misconduct files to state Supreme...
The Colorado Independent has turned to the state Supreme Court for help in our fight to unseal records about prosecutorial misconduct in a death...
Should judges in Colorado be able to seal criminal court records...
In a terse letter, a committee of the Colorado Supreme Court has rejected CFOIC’s call for a uniform standard for sealing court files in...
Colorado #OpenGov group to Aurora theater shooter: Tell us how much...
Nearly two years after a jury convicted James Holmes of murdering 12 people and wounding 70 others at an Aurora movie theater, Colorado taxpayers...
Could more transparency come to Colorado this year?
Colorado's Open Records Act is an old law with some outdated provisions in it.
Last year, state legislation failed that would help align the law...
One in four Colorado school districts are violating state transparency law
Only 57 percent of Colorado school districts fully comply with a state transparency law, independent watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch has found.
The group...
Littwin on Loogie-gate: Clinton’s pneumonia and Trump’s own strain of phlegm
So, like, what were the chances?
Donald Trump and his team – old Rudy at the barking front of the pack – kept insisting, with...
Independent Ethics Commission shuts down public livestream of meeting
The conflict over a lack of transparency at Colorado’s Independent Ethics Commission came to a head Thursday when Colorado Ethics Watch set up a...
Cloudy conditions for Sunshine Week: A pile of paper instead of...
For an ongoing series on race in Colorado, Rocky Mountain PBS investigative reporter Katie Wilcox requested five years of records from six cities on...
Sure, Colorado has a clean reputation — but there’s still lots...
Colorado is not a state with a tradition of scandal-scarred government. Its governors don't tumble from power in disgrace, and indictments of lawmakers and...