Records custodians would have the power to deem someone a “vexatious requester” and bar that person from obtaining public records for 30 working days under a bill introduced Wednesday in the Colorado House that also lets government entities take longer to fill most requests made under the Colorado Open Records Act.
House Bill 24-1296, sponsored by Reps. Cathy Kipp, D-Fort Collins, and Matt Soper, R-Delta, additionally establishes a broad new CORA exemption that allows the withholding of “any record containing information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy.”
And it makes a government employee’s calendar “that is kept and maintained primarily pursuant to the employee’s employment” off limits to public inspection, except for the calendars of elected officials or “employees in leadership positions.” Such records, however, would be available to journalists.