A required “cooling-down period” aimed at resolving open-records disputes without litigation continued its easy journey in the Colorado legislature on Wednesday.
HB 17-1177, approved by the House 65-0 last month after being completely rewritten in committee, passed unanimously in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.
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Colorado lawmakers in 2016 rejected an opportunity to bring the state’s open-records law into the 21st century.
They also decided that wage-law violations should remain “trade secrets” and that internal affairs files on judicial branch employees should remain confidential, which isn’t the case for other state government workers. Continue…
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DENVER – Colorado lawmakers will consider at least four measures to expand public access to information during the legislature's 2016 session, which convenes Wednesday.
Those measures include database records; nonprofit records; wage theft transparency and judicial branch records. Continue…
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Lawmakers will try to tackle two major problems with state open records laws in the session starting Jan. 6, including a bill, sparked by a Watchdog.org series, requiring state courts to abide by open records laws.
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