Legislation to modernize Colorado’s open-records law underwent a significant makeover Tuesday night with a little more than a day left in the 2017 session.
The Colorado House gave preliminary approval to a completely reworked, shorter version of Senate Bill 17-040 designed to satisfy both records requesters and the government entities that have opposed the measure.
While the bill no longer references “structured data,” it is still intended to clarify the public’s right to obtain digitized government records in useful file formats that make it easier to analyze the information contained in those records.