The Colorado Supreme Court will review an appellate court opinion that the Colorado Children’s Code doesn’t necessarily prohibit the state Department of Human Services from publicly releasing aggregate statistics about child-abuse hotline calls made from licensed residential care facilities.
In granting the state Attorney General’s certiorari petition Monday, the justices indicated they will look at whether language in the Children’s Code is ambiguous, as the Court of Appeals determined last November in siding with The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS.
But even if the language is ambiguous, the Supreme Court said it will decide whether the legislative history of the Children’s Code supports the appellate judges’ interpretation of the statute.