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Colorado Senator Kefalas to look at public records access

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State Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, is looking at expanding Colorado open records law to include electronic records.

Kefalas said the legislative fix could be simple, provided the political will is there. The nascent proposal, as Kefalas described it at a Saturday coffee-with-constituents meeting, would make explicit that public records available in digital form must be delivered that way. No bill has been formally drafted yet.  Continue…

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Some Colorado counties charge thousands of dollars for public inspection of ballot records

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The public can inspect voted ballots in Colorado. So says a state Court of Appeals decision in 2011 and state legislation enacted the following year.

But some counties are making it prohibitively expensive for at least one election watchdog to obtain the records he says are needed to independently audit the accuracy of voting systems.

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Smartphone app empowers Coloradans to witness, record interactions with law enforcement

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has launched Mobile Justice Colorado, a new police accountability tool that empowers Coloradans to witness and record police interactions and to submit cell phone videos of civil rights abuses directly to the ACLU of Colorado, so they cannot be deleted or destroyed.

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