Tag: open meetings
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Colorado justices deliver favorable ruling for organizations raising open meetings violations
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that organizations are entitled to the same recovery of their costs as individuals when they successfully pursue a public entity’s violation of the state’s open meetings law. The Colorado Open Meetings Law permits “any person” to challenge a violation of the law. At the same time, it grants…
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Appeals court finds no connection to local government necessary to enforce open meetings law
For the first time, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that every person in the state may challenge governmental compliance with the open meetings law, regardless of whether they have a connection to the government body at issue. In 2014, state legislators amended the open meetings law to allow “any person” whose rights were denied…
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Judge: El Paso County commissioners did not violate open meetings law
Closed sessions held in 2019 by El Paso County commissioners to discuss a ballot question that could have asked voters to allow the county to retain tax dollars were lawfully held and did not violate open meetings law, a judge found last week. Rebecca Marshall, co-founder of advocacy group The Springs Taxpayers, filed a lawsuit…