By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado
A Denver District Court judge has given Secretary of State Jena Griswold until Thursday to comply with an open records request, or she could be held in contempt.
The records involve consulting work, paid for with public funds. Griswold’s office says it doesn’t have the documents and it refuses to ask the consultant for them, claiming that would impose an undue “burden.” Instead, the Secretary of State’s office sent four employees and the Attorney General’s Office sent three attorneys to court.
The consultant was brought in two years after Griswold became Secretary of State. The office had become a revolving door. Griswold was on her second deputy secretary, third chief legal counsel and fourth chief of staff. An invoice in the court record shows the state paid Sage River Consulting nearly $25,000 to conduct “leadership development” and make “findings, conclusions, and recommendations.”
Attorney Suzanne Taheri, who was deputy secretary under Republican Wayne Williams, saw the invoice in the state’s transparency portal and asked the office for the consultant’s report.
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