HB15-1101 Summary

• Subjects records of the Office of the State Public Defender and Office of Alternate Defense Counsel to the Colorado Open Records Act, ending their prior exemption as judicial department agencies.

• Excludes attorney-client privileged communications, work product doctrine materials, and client files prepared in anticipation of litigation from public disclosure requirements.

• Applies the open records act specifically to records related to expenditure of appropriated and other public funds by these two offices.

• Takes effect 90 days after final adjournment of the 2015 legislative session (August 5, 2015), subject to referendum petition and potential voter approval in November 2016.