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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
Jun 12
Current and former students at the school newspaper serving Grand Junction High are concerned about the sidelining of a media adviser and are worried about censorship and threats to press freedom: editorandpublisher.com/stori…
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
Jun 13
Want to know who’s paying for legislative campaign flyers filling Denver mailboxes? Good luck. mrf.lu/90rR denverpost.com/2026/06/13/co…
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"Through open records requests, The Sun obtained the last six years of employee compensation data, PERA’s internal policies on bonus pay and 10 years of budget documents."
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"After the state Supreme Court ruling, The Colorado Sun sent a new request under the Colorado Open Records Act to get the up-to-date numbers of hotline calls."
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"In the past two years, GJHS administration has attempted to censor, review, and repress several articles and elements within the publication."
Student press freedom under threat at GJHS | Columns | gjsentinel.com
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CFOIC has updated its free online guide to Colorado's sunshine laws to reflect 2026 legislative changes, including adjustments to the statute governing the release of police bodycam and dashcam footage.
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"Senators reintroduced a bill Tuesday aimed at modernizing federal court records, centralizing access to docket reports across the federal judiciary and making the whole system free to use."
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“Judicial records belong to the American people; they are public, not private, documents.”
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"A man cited for projecting 'stop ICE murders' on the Colorado Supreme Court is suing members of the city police department and Colorado State Patrol claiming violations of his right to free speech and petition."
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"The Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space and banned journalists from accessing it to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions."
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
Jun 1
Whatever one thinks of the specifics of Polis freeing Peters, there was little doubt about how it would be used on the right:
As proof that even a Democrat thinks election-deniers who committed crimes were railroaded.
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NEW: Tina Peters, newly freed by Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), begins her MAGA media tour by telling Steve Bannon that Democrats are cheating on elections and she was imprisoned as retribution for exposing voting machines that flip votes.
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"Gov. Jared Polis on Friday vetoed a bill that would have required executive branch lobbyists to follow much of the same disclosure rules that already govern other Capitol lobbyists."
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
The Denver Sheriff Department is shifting some deputy disciplinary matters away from independent investigation and instead will handle them in-house, a move that narrows the scope of reforms city officials made more than six years ago --> denverpost.com/2026/05/29/de…
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
May 28
Very important government transparency question in Colorado: can public records be entirely withheld if they contain some confidential information, or do the records have to be produced with the confidential info redacted
"This would substantially weaken the watchdog function of the public and the press and would create perverse incentives to hide government misdeeds or controversial actions behind a single personal phone number or line of attorney advice."
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“The public has a legitimate and compelling interest in knowing how law enforcement deploys mass surveillance technology against the communities they serve,” the complaint said. “Without transparency, there is no accountability.”
May 28
2 Boulder residents sue over city’s use of Flock cameras, citing widespread privacy violations
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Colorado Transparency News: A "duty to redact"; 2026 legislative session wrap-up; redaction of elected officials' personal information; reporting requirements for Denver lobbyists; Aurora police communications; DPS CORA policy; social media banning; more. mailchi.mp/39ad4147bc66/colo…
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ICYMI: A case in the Court of Appeals about the redaction of public records “presents a simple but monumental question for the future of government transparency in Colorado,” the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition says in an amicus brief.
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Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition retweeted
May 26
My FOIA Public Records request I submitted to the Department of the Interior was fulfilled today after 313 days. Original delivery est. was 08/15/25.
My Air Force FOIA remains unfulfilled 608 days and counting.
FOIA is for transparency and accountability. We need some reform.
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"This would substantially weaken the watchdog function of the public and the press and would create perverse incentives to hide government misdeeds or controversial actions behind a single personal phone number or line of attorney advice."
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A case in the Court of Appeals about the redaction of public records “presents a simple but monumental question for the future of government transparency in Colorado,” the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition says in an amicus brief.
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