Court Cases

The ACLU of Colorado filed an amicus brief with the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition urging the Colorado Court of Appeals to uphold a ruling that fees for body-worn camera footage are not authorized by Colorado’s Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act passed in 2020.

We participated as amicus in a case requesting the Colorado Supreme Court to provide clear guidance related to the judicially created “cure” doctrine that permits a state or local public body to ‘cure’ a prior violation of the Colorado Open Meetings Law by holding a subsequent complying meeting.

The Colorado Supreme Court upholds the availability of the Colorado Open Records Act to parties litigating against an agency that holds public records

We urge the Colorado Court of Appeals to not make it harder to sue the government over violations of Colorado's Open Meetings Law.

This lawsuit, filed on behalf of immigration attorney Jennifer Smith, challenges what ICE describes as its “practice” of denying access to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process when the agency regards the attorney’s client as a “fugitive.”

This lawsuit, filed against Denver Manager of Safety Al LaCabe and the City and County of Denver, seeks disclosure of the policy and procedure manual for the downtown city jail, known as the Pre-Arraignment Detention Facility or PADF. The Manager of Safety refused to produce the manual under Colorado open records laws based on the ground that disclosure would be “contrary to the public interest.”