October 2023
Colorado Court Holds That Public Officials’ Text Messages on Cell Phones are Public Records
PUBLISHED IN: MediaLawLetter October 2023
TOPICS : Access / FOIA, Government Records
Judge Scoville’s ruling joined numerous other state courts in finding that text messages of public employees housed on personal cell phones are not outside the statutory definition of “public records” merely because they were never transferred to any government entity’s servers for storage and retrieval.
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