CFOIC Executive Director
A Larimer County District Court judge will decide whether the Colorado Open Records Act requires a public hospital district to redact privileged information from attorney billing invoices and release the public portions to the Estes Valley Voice news site.
In a court brief submitted earlier this month, Estes Park Health argues that “redaction is a permissible but optional approach,” defending its decision to withhold the entirety of the statements from Voice editor Patti Brown. “There is no authority supporting a general obligation to redact under CORA.”
But that interpretation is incorrect, says a brief filed for Brown and The Voice by attorneys Michael Beylkin and Steve Zansberg. “Colorado’s appellate courts have held that CORA does not authorize an ‘all or nothing’ approach to disclosure, which makes EPH’s blanket denial … improper,” they wrote…