Ballot initiative would add constitutional right to access public meetings and records in Colorado

Ballot initiative would add constitutional right to access public meetings and records in Colorado

The Colorado House of Representatives on Wednesday. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)Colorado voters could be asked this year to amend the state’s constitution to include the right to know the goings-on of state and local governments through public meetings and open records. A ballot initiative filed Friday by the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would codify that value in Article II of the constitution…

Proposed ballot initiative would add ‘a fundamental right to know’ to Colorado’s constitutional bill of rights

By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director An initiative for the fall ballot filed Friday by the leaders of the Independence Institute and the League of Women Voters of Colorado would enshrine in the Colorado Constitution “a fundamental right to know the affairs of all levels of state and local government.” The transparency proposal is the product of several months’ work by a diverse alliance of groups that also includes the Colorado Freedom…