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The backstory is I was trying to get 9 cents to cover stories being erased in Colorado, Denver Metro and rural Colorado.
I have a nice flowchart to show the issue, but ultimately rDenver, rColorado and even rEnglewoodCO are doing a lot of soft censorship. This coupled with retroactive NDA's is making a lot of potential "Clearly Established" cases disappear.
The root cause appears to be the City Insurance Pools. CIRSA for Colorado.
They are outside of our transparency laws.
They take every Civil Rights violation by their 298 members and make it attorney client privilege.
We only have a two year window (kinda) for 1983 U.S.C cases so by charging high fees in the Cities, ignoring half of CORA requests and setting 2 year or less retention policies: they can erase the discovery that fixes long term problems and make people believe these problems don't even exist.
I tracked it from the vehicle registration and driver's license tickets they kept giving out even when the offices were appointment only and they knew they weren't meeting everyone. My car was towed for a vehicle registration I couldn't get.
I even tried to register a new vehicle and they threw the title at in at the Arapahoe DMV. Both cars they refused to register and I have the letters. That didn't stop the tickets or impoundment.
Now the sad thing is this is caused largely by CiRSA and it's not just tows it's everything. They also don't won't to pay firefighters their cancer benefits.
So when Polis vetoed the benefits bill for firefighters and said the Cities didn't want it, it was likely the Cities' representatives which is CIRSA. CIRSA who fought in 2013 to deny cancer benefits to firefighter if something else may have caused cancer.
CIRSA who takes public funds and lobbies Cities' in Colorado. Who lobbied against the cancer benefits bill for the firefighters.
If that sounds crazy read Backroom Deals in our Backyards.
Libby might have the audiobook depending on which library you use.
Transparency laws and things like CORA requests are a crucial part of maintaining the good qualities of each State.