Denver Improperly Withheld Text Messages About Red Rocks Hailstorm, Judge Rules

Nov 1, 2023

A judge Monday ordered Denver to disclose city officials’ text messages about last June’s severe hailstorm at Red

Inside the News: A West Slope Colorado Newspaper Nearly Died. Then This Happened…

Oct 28, 2023

The email came — notably — on Friday the 13th. In October. The spooky season. When ghouls and ghosts and goblins

Editorial: Despite Statewide Efforts, Criminals With Guns and Badges Still Serve on Police Forces Across the State

Oct 23, 2023

The Sentinel roster of Aurora cops caught lying, beating, cheating or behaving like a racist truly is a hall of

Aurora’s Long Problem With Keeping Cop Secrets

Many of the highest-profile examples of Aurora police involved in misconduct and controversy — which have turned

The Problem and the Solution: Aurora’s Civil Service Commission Tied to Officer Discipline Quandary

AURORA | Sifting out troubled officers and unsuitable police recruits has become a major focus in the struggle to

Undisciplined

Rogue cops still licensed to work despite government

Inside the News: Dire Future for Colorado News Printing? Some Pathways Might Exist…

Sep 30, 2023

A report this week from a cluster of journalism advocacy groups paints a dire picture for the future of Colorado’s

Inside the News: New Database ‘Amplify Colorado’ Connects Journalists With Diverse Sources

Sep 23, 2023

Colorado News Collaborative this week unveiled what it calls a first-of-its-kind online guide that will “help

Amplify Colorado

Sep 22, 2023

Local newsrooms long have known that they need to improve their coverage of communities of color and other groups who

Inside the News: Broomfield Leader in Colorado Becomes First Ever Village Media News Site to Close

Sep 7, 2023

Two years after launching the Broomfield Leader as a for-profit digital local news site, the Canadian-owned Village

Inside the News: Reddit & Nextdoor Have Become ‘De Facto Hubs’ for Boulder ‘Crime’ Info, Reporting Lab Says

Sep 2, 2023

Whether someone plunged a knife into a college student in Boulder last week might not be the most pressing news story

Inside the News: Colorado Public Radio Becomes ‘First U.S. Media’ To Earn Unique Global Trust Credential

Aug 26, 2023

For the past year, Colorado has been a state-based testing ground for an international project seeking to bolster trust

Inside the News: Newspapers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley SOLD to Millennial Wyoming Publisher

Aug 4, 2023

An Illinois company that owned a cluster of eight newspapers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley has sold them to a young

Inside the News: Battle for Aspen – The Daily News Overtakes Aspen Times As ‘Paper of Record’

Jul 28, 2023

Following what one city staffer called an “extensive review,” city leaders in Aspen this week anointed the locally

Inside the News: A TV Story Disappeared After a Newspaper Reporter Called Out ‘Almost Identical’ Paragraphs

Jul 22, 2023

Typically, when a news organization decides to remove a piece of reporting from its website after publication, a best

Inside the News: The Denver Post Is the Latest Colorado Newspaper To Kill Off Its Comments Section

Jul 1, 2023

After years of trying to disinfect what it characterized as a toxic swamp of an online comments section, Colorado’s

Inflation Could Boost CORA’s Research-and-Retrieval Rate 23 Percent Next Year, According to New Legislative Council Estimate

Jun 26, 2023

A year from now, on July 1, 2024, inflation will likely boost the maximum hourly rate governments are allowed to charge

Inside the News: Coloradans Swarmed on Solutions to Widespread Problems From a Newspaper’s Press Closure

Jun 23, 2023

Media advocates in Colorado swarmed into action this week to help several local newspapers continue publishing a

Inside the News: Pueblo Chieftain Union Blasts Owner for Shutting Down Colorado Printing Press

Jun 14, 2023

The labor union representing workers at the Pueblo Chieftain ripped into the paper’s owner Gannett this week when the

News Organizations Ask Colorado Supreme Court To Review and Reverse Ruling That Keeps State’s Database of Law Enforcement Officers Confidential

A Court of Appeals opinion keeping Colorado’s database of law enforcement officers confidential “creates a gaping

Inside the News: A Colorado Reporter Explains ‘Off the Record’ to a Source — And to Readers

Jun 9, 2023

This week, a city council member in Englewood who is at the center of controversy answered a phone call from a local

Polis Signs Bill Letting Colorado Elected Officials Block People on Private Social Media but Acknowledges ‘This Area of the Law … Is Unsettled’

Signing into law a bill that lets elected officials block anyone from their private social media accounts for “any

CFOIC Asks Court of Appeals To Reverse Judge’s Ruling That Town Board’s Censure of Fellow Trustee Was Not Subject to Colorado’s Open Meetings Law

Jun 3, 2023

A district court judge made “egregious” errors last year in deciding that Colorado’s Sunshine Law did not require

Inside the News: Boebert 911 Calls Scoop Came From an Open-Records Request, ‘Authentic’ Rapport

Jun 2, 2023

Haven Orecchio-Egresitz is currently a journalist for the national outlet Insider but spent her career as a local

Inside the News: I Followed a Colorado Newspaper’s Sports Betting Advice and Lost Money

May 19, 2023

Four years ago, Colorado legalized online sports gambling. The lucrative business and gobs of money that orbit it have

How Colorado Is Filling Gaps for Its ‘Most Vulnerable’ Children As Last-Resort Schools Dwindle

May 14, 2023

The Learning Zone is a small school in Littleton that teaches nonverbal students to use devices thatallow them to

Colorado Is Pouring More Money Into Schools for Kids With Behavioral Health Issues and Disabilities, but Are They Helping?

May 13, 2023

Colorado is doubling the funding next year for schools that enroll students whose mental health ormedical needs are too

Last Resort

May 11, 2023

The schools that take Colorado’s “most vulnerable” students are disappearing. Can they be saved? Should

The Schools That Take Colorado’s ‘Most Vulnerable’ Children Are Disappearing

For Erin Schneiderman, the summer between her son’s third and fourth grade year was “one of the worst periods of

Wrap-Up: Colorado Legislature Again Shuns CORA Cost Reform in 2023 Session but Removes Some Obstacles for Records Requesters

May 9, 2023

Despite a looming inflationary increase in fees, state lawmakers in the 2023 legislative session never addressed the

Colorado Lawmaker Promises To Keep Trying To Improve Access to Government for People With Disabilities After Requesting Defeat of His Own Bill

May 3, 2023

Promising to keep working to improve access to state-and-local government for people with disabilities, a lawmaker

Colorado Senate Rewrites Open Meetings Bill To Only Affect Pro Se Litigants Who Challenge Executive Sessions

May 2, 2023

Update: The Colorado Senate voted 29-5 to pass the amended version of HB 23-1259 on Tuesday, May 2. The strike-below

Lawmakers Vote Down Proposal To Open Records on Secret-Ballot System at Colorado Statehouse

Apr 29, 2023

Legislators Friday defeated a CORA bill amendment, proposed by Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, aimed at opening records on the

Inside the News: Another Colorado Newspaper Reporter Quits to Launch a Local News Site

Dylan Anderson has become the latest local journalism entrepreneur in Colorado to leave a shrinking newspaper only to

Court of Appeals: Colorado’s Database of Law Enforcement Officers Will Remain Confidential

Apr 27, 2023

Colorado’s Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board is a criminal justice agency, and it did not abuse its

CORA Bill Advances With Provision Barring Agencies From Requiring Records Requesters To Show ID

Apr 21, 2023

A CORA modernization bill passed a Colorado Senate committee Thursday with lawmakers adding a provision that prohibits

No Cost Relief for Records Requesters in CORA Bill Introduced in Colorado Senate

Apr 18, 2023

Unlike a draft circulating at the state Capitol since mid-March, the introduced version of a bill amending the Colorado

‘A Terrible So-Called Solution’: Amended Open Meetings Bill Still Weakens Enforcement of Provision on Executive Session Announcements

Apr 17, 2023

As amended by the Colorado House last week, an open meetings bill still significantly weakens Coloradans’ ability to

Inside the News: Twitter’s War With NPR Trickles Down to Colorado

Apr 14, 2023

This week, the social media platform Twitter added a label to NPR’s account that called the national broadcaster

Inside the News: Colorado Mountain Papers SOLD to Arizona Group Pledging Anti-Hedge-Fund Strategy

Apr 7, 2023

A Colorado couple who ran a string of mountain town newspapers under the banner of Arkansas Valley Publishing has sold

Criminal Courts Livestreaming Bill Advances in Colorado Legislature

Apr 6, 2023

A bill requiring Colorado courts to livestream open criminal court proceedings on Webex or another videoconferencing

Inside the News: New ‘Real Talk’ Show Blends Colorado TV and Radio To Focus on Underserved Communities

Mar 30, 2023

Two large broadcasters — Colorado Public Radio and Denver7 — have joined forces to launch a new public affairs show

Inside the News: New Book ‘Gangbuster’ Recalls 1920s Denver Media and the Ku Klux Klan

Mar 22, 2023

In the Roaring ‘20s, the Ku Klux Klan didn’t just control the levers of political power in Colorado from the

Inside the News: ‘We Had To Lay Off About Half of Our Staff,’ Says Major Colorado Springs Media Outlet

Mar 17, 2023

Call it Bloody Wednesday. “March 15 is going to be a hard date to forget here at Sixty35 Media,” read an

CFOIC, News Associations Urge Judicial Branch To Permit Livestreaming of Trials and Evidentiary Hearings

Mar 15, 2023

A proposed chief justice directive should be revised to allow the livestreaming of criminal trials and evidentiary

Aurora Sentinel Argues in Court of Appeals for Release of City Council Executive Session Recording

Mar 8, 2023

In a new filing, the Aurora Sentinel lays out multiple reasons why it believes the Colorado Court of Appeals should

COA Ruling Chills Speech ‘That Allows the Media To Keep the Public Informed,’ CFOIC, News Associations Argue in Colorado Supreme Court Brief

Mar 6, 2023

A 2021 Colorado Court of Appeals opinion on what lawyers can tell the press about pending class-action lawsuits will

Colorado Judicial Branch Asks for Public Comment on Proposed Virtual Court Directives

Mar 1, 2023

Colorado’s judicial branch proposed two new chief justice directives on virtual court proceedings Wednesday and asked

Inside the News: How a Colorado Newspaper Confronts ‘Systemic Racism’ of Its Past

Feb 17, 2023

Nestled in the foothills west of Denver, the small Golden Transcript newspaper is the latest to publicly grapple with

Measure to restrict NDAs for state and local government employees passes Senate committee

Feb 16, 2023

A bill that restricts governments’ use of nondisclosure agreements to silence public employees in Colorado earned

Latino and Black Poverty Rates in Colorado Are Near Historic Lows, but Economic Stability Remains Elusive

The kitchen table, round and glass, with wooden legs, sits in a sunlit corner of Alejandra Carrera and Clemente

Colorado Senate Bill Deletes Names of Children From Criminal Justice Records

Feb 7, 2023

The names of child victims and witnesses would be removed from criminal justice records before the records are released

Legislation or a New Judicial Branch Policy Could Make Livestreaming of Court Proceedings More Commonplace in Colorado

Feb 6, 2023

Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced Colorado courts to fundamentally change how they operate, the

Inside the News: A Brewing ‘Newspaper of Record’ War in a Tiny Colorado County. ‘I Really Don’t Want To Sue’

Feb 3, 2023

A simmering dispute could boil over between Colorado’s oldest weekly newspaper and the local government of the

Inside the News: Denver Urban Spectrum Chosen for National ‘First Black Media Initiative’ Project

Jan 20, 2023

The monthly Denver Urban Spectrum is one of six outlets in the nation chosen as part of an inaugural cohort

Colorado Senate Bill Would Bar Nondisclosure Agreements for State and Local Government Employees

Jan 19, 2023

A state lawmaker is trying again to bar the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence public employees in Colorado,

Inside the News: As Another Colorado Newspaper Folds a Local Library Works To Digitize Its Archives

Jan 12, 2023

A weekly newspaper that has operated since 1958 in the town of Fountain, just south of Colorado Springs, has gone out

Inside the News: What Happened in Colorado’s Media World in 2022

Jan 2, 2023

In 2022, a nonprofit newspaper revolution hit Colorado. MmmnOK, that might be an overstatement — but as they

CFOIC’s 2022 Year in Review: Club Q, McClain Autopsy, Serial Meetings, Secret Ballots, Book Banning, Teacher Sick Days and Casa Bonita

Dec 28, 2022

Like last year, court rulings dominate the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s 2022 list of transparency

Lakewood City Council Members Criticize Mayor for Muting Their Mics During Zoom Meeting

Dec 23, 2022

Three Lakewood City Council members are raising free-speech concerns after Mayor Adam Paul muted two of their