People who sue state and local government entities are still entitled to get public records from those entities by using the Colorado Open Records Act, a majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.
“We hold that a litigant may obtain records under CORA even if those records are relevant to pending litigation and the litigant has propounded no document requests under the Rules of Civil Procedure,” Justice William Hood wrote for the court, affirming a Court of Appeals opinion.
The underlying case concerns the recording of a 2020 Archuleta County Commission meeting requested by Pagosa Springs attorney Matt Roane, who had sued the board for allegedly violating the Colorado Open Meetings Law.