Electronic Records Bill Gets Colorado House Hearing

DENVER (AP) — A bill to modernize Colorado’s Open Records Act gets its first hearing in the Democrat-led House Monday, with Democrats pushing for a measure that presumes the public is entitled to access government records in ways that can be analyzed by computer.
The bill , sponsored by Rep. Dan Pabon and Sen. John Kefalas, would require government entities to provide public records in computer-readable formats such as spreadsheets that are more user-friendly to citizens. That’