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"It makes one
wonder why a public official made certain decisions, especially ones that
benefited certain interests, when just days, months or years later they take a
lucrative job lobbying for the same interests."
Ethics agencies dispute open records law
By Jason Kosena, The Colorado Statesman,
May 15, 2009
Should all ethics hearings be open to public scrutiny? That’s the murky area of Colorado’s open records law that’s at the center of a dispute between the state’s Independent Ethics Commission and a private, nonprofit watchdog group called Colorado Ethics Watch.
A court hearing this week between the IEC and CEW is expected to spur a Denver District court ruling on the issue within the coming weeks.
At issue is what CEW says is an illegal effort by the state’s ethics
commission to withhold its working documents from the public and
operate essentially as a non-governmental
entity, said Luis Toro, spokesman for CEW.
