Passive surveillance bill passes Colorado House

Fox News reporter Jana Winter, via Skype, urges Colorado lawmakers to reconsider shield law

Amended CORA fees bill sets cap for filling requests at four times minimum wage

Poudre School District destroys records to deny special needs family’s access

From 7NEWS (Denver): FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A CALL7 investigation has found the Poudre School District willfully destroyed records involving a special education student, in an attempt to keep them from his family that has cost taxpayers more than $200,000.

The findings raise serious ethical questions for PSD and raise questions for parents about whether they can trust the district responsible for the education of their children.

Editorial: Support ‘right to know’ in challenging times

Colorado calling all app coders

From The Durango Herald:  Go Code Colorado is asking computer coders for help in organizing the state’s vast stores of data.

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Montrose County Calls CORA Lawsuit ‘Groundless’

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Cohen: The problem with claiming a ‘witness safety’ exception to the First Amendment

From The Week:  The concept of a public trial is at the heart of the Bill of Rights. It’s right there in the Sixth Amendment, right next to the part about impartial juries. It’s right there in the First Amendment, too, right there in the part about the freedom of the press.

And yet, our public trials are often not nearly as public as we think.

For instance, in Colorado, there’s a remarkable case that is forcing judges to balance in an unprecedented way the constitutional rights of criminal defendants and media organizations with a much more practical right — the right of witnesses to be protected from violence before and after they testify against alleged murderers.

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Judge rules for town of Castle Rock in open-records case

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Editorial: Town of Dillon must come clean on Brian Brady’s resignation

From the Summit Daily News:  Quick question. Who’s in charge of the Dillon Police Department?

— Can’t tell you.

— Can you at least tell me why interim police chief Brian Brady recently resigned? Does it have anything to do with a perjury investigation involving a doctored parking ticket?

—Well, hey, that’s a personnel matter. At any rate, Brady’s gone and that investigation has been closed. Move along. There’s nothing to see here.

Frustrated Arapahoe High parents seek transparency after shooting

From The Denver Post:  It was not the December shooting at Arapahoe High that made Jennifer Campo move her daughter out of the district she has attended since elementary school.

Campo doesn’t blame administrators for the day that student Karl Pierson charged into the school with a shotgunand killed himself and his classmate, Claire Davis. But she does blame the school and the district for the lack of communication and the failure to address safety concerns in the weeks after the Dec. 13 shooting.

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U.S. Supreme Court will not hear request to unseal Owens case

From The Denver Post:  The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a request to unseal transcripts and files in the death penalty case against Sir Mario Owens.

The case and files have been sealed for more than six years. The high court announced its decision not to hear the request on Monday.

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