Colorado open records laws do little to regulate retention of government communications, such as those sent through messaging apps. Your take? Have you ever heard of Confide, a messaging app that automatically deletes text messages once read? Neither have I. Turns out that at least 15 Colorado state legislators are currently using Confide to conduct official […]
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CHEYENNE – Lawmakers proposed clarifications to the new ombudsman position and amendments to the Public Records Act on Friday during the second day of the Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Interim Committee meeting. The changes include adding descriptions to the ombudsman’s role, which include mediating disputes between a government agency and public records requester, and providing interpretation […]
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A list of candidates for the University of Colorado system president were described as “finalists” in emails between regents, contrary to the system’s previous assertions that President Mark Kennedy was the sole finalist for the job. That detail is key to an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Daily Camera asking the CU system be ordered […]
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Email inboxes are slated to be purged this week for hundreds of state employees, The Denver Post has learned — a move that promises to eliminate access to government records that would otherwise be public. The impacted employees work for the Department of Regulatory Agencies, divisions of which regulate key industries in Colorado, including insurance, electric utilities, banks, […]
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CHEYENNE – After working for nearly 30 years in Washington, D.C., Ruth Van Mark wasn’t expecting to take on a new job in Wyoming. Instead, she was planning to retire back in the state she grew up in. Then, one day this summer, she got a call while hanging out at her family’s wheat farm […]
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During an unusual and sparsely-attended lunch meeting, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents today nominated and selected member Gary Pierson as the board’s next chairman effective March 2020. Regents selected Renzi Stone to be vice chairman of the board. Discussion about the selections occurred in room 345 of Gould Hall with no members of […]
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Oklahoma House legislators will take on a larger role in overseeing state boards and commissions by regularly attending their public meetings and private executive sessions. House Speaker Charles McCall announced Friday that oversight of 40 state boards and commissions will be divvied up among the House committees with legislators attending board meetings to improve their […]
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SELBY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota county auditor accused of failing to make documents available for a public meeting was arrested and charged with violating the state’s open meetings law, in a rare move seen as extreme by some media and open-government experts. Walworth County State’s Attorney James Hare issued an arrest warrant last […]
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Michigan’s attorney general spoke for more than an hour to a packed auditorium Thursday at the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library in Midland about the transparency of the Michigan government — and occasional lack thereof. Attorney General Dana Nessel gave a crowd of area residents a crash course education about the State of Michigan’s adherence […]
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The 10th episode of Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s “Counsel for the State” podcast is out, and it focuses on the significance of Idaho’s open meeting and public records laws and this month’s open government seminars, including sessions coming up Monday in Boise and Thursday in Nampa. On the podcast, I join Wasden, Deputy Attorney […]
