Colorado Supreme Court to decide if state wrongly denied child abuse hotline data to media orgs
By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun
The news agencies wanted to know the number of times child residential treatment centers had called the child abuse hotline but were denied by state human services officials
A legal battle over child abuse hotline data requested four years ago by The Colorado Sun and 9News has reached the Colorado Supreme Court.
The case centers on the news organizations’ joint request under the Colorado Open Records Act for the number of calls made to the state child abuse hotline from three child residential treatment centers in the Denver area from 2018 to 2021.
Journalists sought the information while investigating the safety of children in residential centers, including the death of a 12-year-old boy who ran away from Tennyson Center and...




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