Posts tagged as “Colorado Open Meeting Law”

 On March 6, Attorney Matt Roane, representing Jordan Hedberg (the Wet Mountain Tribune is not a party of the law­suit), filed a lawsuit against the Town of Westcliffe alleg­ing that the Board of Trustees (BOT) and Mayor violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law and by doing so, “that the Town and its board of trustees violated Hedberg’s rights under Colorado’s Open Meetings Law.” Matt Roane is a specialist who has spent a decade taking cities, school boards, boards of county commissioners, and more to court for violations of the Colorado Open Meetings Law, also known as the Colorado Sunshine Law. He has filed over 200 such lawsuits in the State of Colorado, and his suc­cess prompted the State Legislature in 2024 to consider a bill…