Last month, Denver District Court Judge Norman Haglund ruled in favor of Ethics Watch in a Colorado Open Records Act lawsuit against the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission (IEC).  Ethics Watch is now making public for the first time files regarding advisory opinion and letter ruling requests and non-frivolous complaints filed with the IEC, all of which have now been made public as a result of the court ruling.

The IEC's files produced to date are available under "Related Documents" on the right side of the page.  Ethics Watch has asked the IEC to check for correspondence that is subject to the court order but has not been produced to date and will add any additional documents to the list on this page. Ethics Watch has also submitted CORA requests to the IEC seeking, among other things, documents regarding Complaints 08-03 and 08-04 (which the Court ruled could be sought in a new CORA request) and documents regarding advisory opinion and letter ruling requests filed after August 27, 2009, the date of the CORA request that was the subject ot the litigation.

More information about the court ruling can be found here.