Revising rules for the legislature’s Committee on Legal Services for the first time since 1981, Colorado lawmakers proposed an open-ended exception to the Sunshine Law that would let the committee make decisions by email — no public meeting required.
They abandoned that idea Thursday at the request of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.
“It is always helpful for us to have additional eyes on the work that we are doing,” said Sen. Pete Lee during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 22-062, thanking CFOIC for raising concerns about the measure. “We are committed to transparency and accountability and sometimes we stub our toe just a little bit,” added the Colorado Springs Democrat, a sponsor of the bill and chair of the judiciary committee.