ICYMI: A proposal to ban the charging of fees for unedited body-worn camera footage, released to the public under the Law Enforcement Integrity Act, died when the CO House amended and then defeated a controversial whistleblower bill. #coleg #copolitics coloradofoic.org/proposed-ban-o…

NEW: We've learned more details about what happened the day an East High student shot two deans...and what these searches for weapons really looked like.

9NEWS Denver obtained video of the response and a police interview with the assistant principal.

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Remarkable: “through shoe-leather reporting and using the state’s open-records laws, a journalist for a local TV station got his hands on evidence in a court case before the suspect’s own defense attorneys did.” coloradomedia.substack.com/p/koaa-under-p…

A proposal to ban the charging of fees for unedited body-worn camera footage, released to the public under the Law Enforcement Integrity Act, died Friday when the CO House amended and then defeated a controversial whistleblower bill. #coleg #copolitics coloradofoic.org/proposed-ban-o…

HB 1460, as introduced, also would have prohibited law enforcement agencies from from charging fees for unedited body-worn camera footage released to the public under the 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act.

Passage of the Colorado Sunshine Act in 1972 meant, among other things, no more beer for the state Capitol press corps. #coleg #copolitics coloradofoic.org/fifty-years-ag…

A bill to create an online clearinghouse of draft legislation in between #coleg sessions won preliminary approval in the Colorado House. Background from when it passed a committee in February: coloradofoic.org/colorado-bill-…

'The theft of that journalism to create new products clearly intended to supplant news publishers further undermines the economy for news at a time when fair and balanced reporting and a shared set of facts is more critical than ever.' via Denver Post Opinion denverpost.com/2024/05/02/ope…

Gannett today just sold one of its small newspapers in New Mexico to a family-owned newspaper company in Southern Colorado: durangoherald.com/articles/balla…

A judge in New York state ordered a reporter not to publish details he heard in court in an arraignment in a murder case. That seems like a problem with open courts, don't you think? oswegocountynewsnow.com/news/legal-exp…

ICYMI: State senators Wednesday killed a bill that would have given state and local government entities more time to respond to Colorado Open Records Act requests to address what proponents called the “abuse” of CORA. #coleg #copolitics #edcolo coloradofoic.org/bill-to-addres…

'The meeting was not announced, so reporters from Colorado Politics and The Denver Post entered the room to observe.'

State senators Wednesday killed a bill that would have given state and local government entities more time to respond to Colorado Open Records Act requests to address what proponents called the “abuse” of CORA. #coleg #copolitics #edcolo coloradofoic.org/bill-to-addres…

Wow. The Senate State Affairs Committee just killed the CORA bill, HB 24-1296, on a 3-2 vote. CFOIC opposed the extended response times and other aspects of the bill, even after the 'vexatious requester' provision was removed. #coleg #copolitics #edcolo

Kansas special prosecutors have received “a detailed synopsis” of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s ongoing review of last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record.
via Sherman Smith
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HB 24-1460 also prohibits law enforcement agencies from charging fees for unedited body-worn camera footage released to the public under the 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act.

The Colorado Senate voted 28-7 for an elections bill that would give county clerks up to 20 working days to comply with CORA requests during election seasons, except for requests made by journalists. Background: coloradofoic.org/bill-lets-coun… #coleg #copolitics

ICYMI: People who want library books removed from circulation or reclassified on library shelves could no longer remain anonymous under a bill garnering support in the Colorado legislature. #coleg #copolitics coloradofoic.org/senate-bill-to…

People who want library books removed from circulation or reclassified on library shelves could no longer remain anonymous under a bill garnering support in the Colorado legislature. #coleg #copolitics coloradofoic.org/senate-bill-to…

In section about AI misinformation, lawsuit says 'a GPT model completely fabricated that the Denver Post published research and medical observations that smoking can be a cure for asthma' in response to a prompt seeking essay on newspapers reporting about smoking curing asthma