Tag: Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
Our next chapter The Indy is moving away from a daily...
This message was originally published on May 15, 2020.
Dear readers,
We told you last month that big changes are underway as the Indy joins forces with the Colorado Press Association, Colorado Media...
Colorado news orgs urge Polis to increase transparency around COVID-19 spread...
The following letter was sent to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, Apr. 10, 2020:
Dear Gov. Polis,
We, the undersigned journalism organizations, want to thank...
Rangely police shooting: The truth emerges and the healing begins
RANGELY ̶ Late in the evening, two hours into Monday’s meeting at the community college, Debra Pierce turned and faced the police lieutenant who...
Research: What Colorado needs to do to preserve the modern public...
When state Sen. John Cooke asked for email communications of the top official for the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission last fall, the agency’s...
Senate committee advances bill that opens files on police internal affairs...
A Colorado Senate committee Wednesday evening advanced legislation that would open records on completed law enforcement internal affairs investigations.
House Bill 19-1119, which passed the...
Court secrecy, a handcuffed journalist, ‘Access Denied’: CFOIC’s year-in-review 2018
Two words come to mind when looking back at 2018’s government transparency highlights and lowlights in Colorado.
Judicial secrecy.
In June, the Colorado Supreme Court baffled many legal...
Ex-Denver Post journalists launched a new publication with crypto backing
In 1833, The New York Sun revolutionized journalism as a pioneer of the penny press. In 2018, a new startup called The Colorado Sun is hoping to do the...
Hickenlooper vetoes bill to limit public access to child autopsy reports,...
Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed a proposed law Friday that would have limited public access to child autopsy reports in an effort to protect the...
Lawmakers vote to close child autopsy reports, put burden on the...
Colorado lawmakers are poised to close public access to autopsy reports on minors, bowing to a request from county coroners who say disclosure of...
Colorado bill would open records on completed police internal affairs investigations
Colorado would join a dozen other states that require public disclosure of internal records on police misconduct under legislation introduced in the House on...