2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
Governmental Access to News Information
Article 72.5 - Governmental Access to News Information
§ 24-72.5-101. Legislative declaration
The general assembly finds that an informed citizenry, which results from the free flow of information between citizens and the mass media, and the preservation of news information sources for the mass media is of vital concern to all people of the state of Colorado and that the interest of the state in such area is so great that the state shall retain jurisdiction over the use of any subpoena power or the exercise of any other authority by any governmental entity to obtain news information or the identification of the source of such information within the knowledge or possession of newspersons, which is hereby declared to be a matter of statewide concern.
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