Appears the Do Better Denver X account is gone My favorite DBD lie was that my mother is OJ prosecutor Marcia Clark (my mom is a music teacher/church choir director) My least fav DBD lie was that the state was covering up TdA's involvement in a trooper's shooting (not TdA, perp was US citizen)

"Culver might have tried micromanaging this obituary from the afterlife were it not for the fact that she didn’t believe in an afterlife."

CFOIC and multiple other groups and individuals asked the Colorado legislature to continue video coverage of committee meetings for the 2026 session and beyond.

"The office responsible for independent oversight of Denver’s law enforcement agencies is doing too much of its work in secret, a city audit found."

"When people can watch the legislative process, they can better understand the legislative process, and that can foster more civic engagement."

Flomberg: The Kimmel situation is a clear and present example of a "chill effect" in practice, and is a violation of the First Amendment. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/09/charli

Breaking news: A federal judge in Tampa struck down President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying the 85-page complaint was “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the rules governing civil proceedings in federal court.

The chief justice dissented in an open meetings law ruling announced earlier this week: coloradofoic.org/colorado-sup...

Nexstar is one of the largest owners of local TV stations in the US. Nexstar, which owns Fox31 in Denver, is acquiring the parent company of 9NEWS and has said the stations will be combined. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

"These freedoms exist precisely to protect the nation’s dissenters, contrarians and gadflies, just like Kirk, who irritate those in power. The moment government begins criminalizing what is said, we cease to be a free republic."

Floyd Abrams: Trump's lawsuit against the NYT "is ridiculous as a matter of law but extraordinarily dangerous as a matter of national policy. It threatens core First Amendment principles in a manner unique in our history." www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

"Colorado’s U.S. District Court is considering prohibiting people from bringing “smart glasses” that could be used as recording devices into the courthouse."

ICYMI: The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a judicially created doctrine that lets public bodies “cure” violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law at subsequent meetings that do not merely rubber-stamp earlier decisions.

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a judicially created doctrine that lets public bodies “cure” violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law at subsequent meetings that do not merely rubber-stamp earlier decisions.

Self-proclaimed ‘First Amendment auditor’ sues Colorado Springs police over arrest trib.al/5s6tNNw

ICYMI: Nearly 9,900 people have viewed 19 legislative committee meetings since a video pilot program began July 30, the director of Legislative Council told Colorado legislative leaders Thursday.

Nearly 9,900 people have viewed 19 legislative committee meetings since a video pilot program began July 30, the director of Legislative Council told Colorado legislative leaders Thursday.

"Instead of transparency, they got bureaucratic shrugs and misdirection. Homeland Security’s ICE staff on site couldn’t, or wouldn’t, answer even basic questions about detainee numbers, medical staffing, or access to phones, the cost of phone calls and legal counsel."

Colorado Transparency News: digital news outlet's open-government lawsuits; Free Press, Free Country; "egregiously unconstitutional" decision to pull newspaper ads; funeral home inspection reports; sale of 9NEWS' parent company; more. mailchi.mp/faeffb43bb97...

"But state regulators are continuing to keep the contents of the dozens of new inspection reports a secret from the public."

"The bottom line is that the public’s business must be conducted publicly. Private companies can operate privately, but government institutions and elected officials must operate openly and transparently, and they should bend over backwards to serve their constituents."

Watch the trailer for Truth Be Told, an upcoming documentary on the importance of a free press that will feature Colorado journalists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4MN...

A primer from the DC Open Government Coalition for journalists covering the federal takeover of DC law enforcement.

ICYMI

It’s good to know there will be freedom of information in the 23rd century.

The Estes Valley Voice had been in existence for just four months when it filed its first open-government lawsuit. Now 14 months since it launched in June 2024, the digital news outlet has filed — remarkably — a total of three.

CFOIC is excited to be involved with Free Press, Free Country, a new campaign to educate Coloradans about the critical importance of strong, independent journalism in a democracy.

Knew this would be a newsy day with the special session at the Capitol, but it's turned out to be even busier than we thought ... .... Colorado Parks and Wildlife ranger arrested for “elaborate hoax” after claiming he was stabbed in Staunton State Park coloradosun.com/2025/08/21/c...

Why did the Colorado legislature remove public access to funeral home inspection reports in 2024? www.kunc.org/news/2025-04...

You can see VIDEO of committee meetings when you tune into the Colorado legislature's special session today under a pilot program that ends Oct. 31. Let Legislative Council know if you'd like video — not just audio — of committee meetings during the 2026 session by emailing [email protected].

The parent company of 9NEWS is being acquired by the parent company of FOX31 in Denver and the stations will be combined, according to the company's CEO. Here's what we know:

Owner of Denver’s Fox31 buying 9News parent company Tegna in deal worth $6.2 billion trib.al/CmZOmG7

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M to Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case over 2020 election claims

We have said it before, we will say it again: the public’s business must be done publicly "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Harpers Weekly, 1913. Leadership at Estes Park Health doesn’t seem to understand what a public record is or what…

First Amendment attorney and CFOIC president Steve Zansberg is the newest member of the Colorado Press Association hall of fame.

BREAKING: Overjoyed newsroom staff in communities across Wyoming are back on the job with pay after corporate closure laid off 30 employees. The revived newspapers are in Wheatland, Torrington, Evanston, Pinedale, Kemmerer, Lusk, Lyman and Guernsey.

ICYMI: A lawyer’s letter urges the Bennett trustees to rescind their “egregiously unconstitutional” decision to pull the town’s advertising from two Eastern Plains newspapers because they didn’t like an article about a sexual assault that allegedly happened at a middle school.

Breaking News: Investigators uncovered evidence that Russia is partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court records.

A lawyer’s letter urges the Bennett trustees to rescind their “egregiously unconstitutional” decision to pull the town’s advertising from two Eastern Plains newspapers because they didn’t like an article about a sexual assault that allegedly happened at a middle school.

"Under the department’s new policy, ICE must file public records requests to obtain information about inmates."

"A retired Aurora detective on the force for 41 years kept boxes of documents linked to 35 different police cases stashed under the floorboards of his home, police said."

"DoBetterDNVR can continue to be an anonymous site for videos of people behaving badly accompanied by opinion, humor, and semi-accurate information, or it can be journalism, but it can’t be both," Krisa Kafer writes.

Data collected by Flock Safety license plate readers across Denver was accessed in immigration-related national searches more than 1,400 times between June 2024 and April 2025, according to audit logs that Newsline obtained from the Denver Police Department. By @brumerdelilah.bsky.social

In private group chat, GOP lawmakers made crude jokes about a Democratic colleague's clothing www.cpr.org/2025/08/06/c... via @bentebirkeland.bsky.social #copolitics

A trial date has been set for a man accused of assaulting a Grand Junction TV reporter in December. www.gjsentinel.com/news/western...

Colorado's judicial discipline rule-making committee has released three rules for public comment (even though they've been in effect on an interim basis). One is a brand new rule, the others address temporary suspensions of judges and sanctioning authority: www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/color...

Colorado Transparency News: bodycam footage fees and access; video pilot for legislative committees; Title IX defamation suits; DoBetterDNVR; Press Forward grant; ICE subpoenas; public broadcasting cuts; more.

DoBetterDNVR bills itself as a “citizen journalist" but critics say it relies on shock and conspiracy to build its platform on Instagram and X. The account's anonymity, lack of transparency and absence of public ethical standards undermine its credibility, one expert said.

Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act does not permit agencies to charge requesters hundreds or thousands of dollars for body-worn camera footage showing possible misconduct by police officers, three briefs submitted to the Colorado of Appeals this week argue.