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Town clerk warns Carbondale Environmental Board about email chains and Colorado open-meeting rules
Summary
Town Clerk Patrick T. Lowe reminded the Environmental Board that email exchanges involving multiple board members can create a ‘meeting’ under Colorado open-meeting statutes and may be subject to notice and public-record requirements, including CORA requests.
Patrick T. Lowe, Carbondale town clerk, gave the Environmental Board a brief briefing on Colorado open-meeting requirements and the risks of using group email for board business.
“Colorado statutes expressly state that electronic email … is subject to open meeting laws,” Lowe said, warning that an email thread among board members that discusses public business can be treated as a public meeting and thus become subject to notice and recordkeeping requirements. He said that even an exchange that is not synchronous…
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