A judge Wednesday ordered the Woodland Park School District to disclose video surveillance footage showing three school board members talking with a candidate for superintendent after a public meeting last December.

Teller County District Court Judge Scott Sells said he was not persuaded by the school district’s argument that the recordings either aren’t public records as defined by the Colorado Open Records Act or could lawfully be withheld under CORA’s discretionary exception for records revealing “specialized details … of security arrangements or investigations.”

The district also had claimed parent Erin O’Connell hadn’t been specific enough in her request for 1.5 hours of footage from the night of Dec. 19, 2022, taken by certain cameras located in the central office lobby, an area known as the “commons,” a hallway and the high school auditorium.