If you think the cost of obtaining public records in Colorado is too high now, you’re not going to like what will happen in 2024.
The maximum hourly rate state and local government entities can charge to process requests made under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) rises every five years with inflation. Set at $30 when the legislature passed House Bill 14-1193 in 2014, the rate was reset to $33.58 on July 1, 2019.
Two years from now, it’ll rise again — by a lot.
See the full article by Jeffrey A. Roberts, June 13, 2022