San Diego company will handle online voting for Colorado residents, military...
From San Diego Union-Tribune Everyone Counts, a San Diego company that provides online voting technology, has been selected by the Colorado Secretary of State to implement a new ballot delivery system...
View ArticleColorado gov’t watchdog scrap gains traction as IRS targets nonprofit finances
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View ArticleCitizens for a Healthy Community Files FOIA Lawsuit
From Merchant Herald: Today, Citizens for a Healthy Community and the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado to force the...
View ArticleNews orgs challenge seal on documents in Colo. theater shooting case
From Washingtonpost.com: CENTENNIAL, Colo. — News media organizations were set Thursday to ask the judge in the Colorado theater shooting case to unseal court documents and scale back a gag order that...
View ArticleUniversities inconsistent on student privacy
From Press-citizen.com:The Press-Citizen was one of several media outlets in August who made a public records request from the University of Iowa for the application records of James Holmes — the...
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CHC & WELC win FOIA lawsuit, federal agency broke law by withholding...
From Citizens for a Healthy Community:DENVER – A federal court ruled yesterday (February 13, 2013) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policy and practice of keeping secret from the public the...
View ArticleColorado poised to expand open records access
From CBS Denver: Public-records access in Colorado is close to getting an expansion – but state lawmakers are resisting efforts to make it cheaper to get public records. A measure that cleared the...
View ArticleSunshine Week highlights the importance of open records and government...
Editorial from Coloradoan.com: In a place known for its 300-plus days of sunny weather every year, a proclamation of “Sunshine Week” may not be met with the ovation it deserves.read more
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Durango officials say new technology for photographing public records is...
From The Republic: DURANGO, Colorado — Durango officials are asking the City Council to ban people from photographing public records to save money, forcing city workers to search out documents without...
View ArticlePhotographing of Durango city records may be banned
From The Durango Herald: The Durango Mall made more than $16,000 worth of public-records requests with the city regarding its correspondence with Mercury, the credit-card payment-processing company...
View ArticleColorado Freedom of Information Coalition hires executive director
The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition (formerly Colorado Freedom of Information Council), an alliance of groups and individuals committed to ensuring the transparency of state and local...
View ArticleDenver launches financial transparency website, displays checkbook
From The Denver Post: Denver just opened the book on its finances. The city and county of Denver launched "Transparent Denver" on Wednesday afternoon, a website displaying city finances that before...
View ArticleWhat is a “reasonable” CORA fee?
From Jeffrey A. Roberts, executive director, Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition: Unlike the statute governing the release of criminal-justice records, the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) says...
View ArticleReporters Committee, CFOIC ask court to reject James Holmes’ motion to...
From Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition: Restricting access to court records in the Aurora movie theater shooting case would “serve no constructive purpose” and significantly impair the...
View ArticleAG’s office to hold Open Meeting Law forum in Danvers
From Wicked Local: Danvers — Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office will hold an educational forum on the Open Meeting Law in Danvers from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 in the Health Professions and...
View ArticleNFOIC executive director discussed Colorado's open government laws on...
From NFOIC: KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in the greater Denver area, took a critical look at Colorado's open government laws, and transparency law enforcement in that state, in a special report called...
View ArticleJeffrey Roberts: When public information is not public
From Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition: With a proposed property tax increase on the November ballot, Conifer resident Melody Mesmer thought that residents of the Elk Creek Fire Protection...
View ArticleOpen records peek behind city's closed doors
From Coloradoan.com: Colorado State University’s on-campus stadium as proposed would inadequately address parking. Around-the-clock footage from hundreds of government surveillance cameras in Fort...
View ArticleLittleton voters restrict City Council’s use of closed-door meetings
From Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition: By Jeffrey A. Roberts, CFOIC Executive Director Buried in Tuesday’s Colorado election results was a measure approved by Littleton residents that...
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