“I’m very satisfied with that track record,” he said. Among those cases, a little under half have actually seen litigation, and three-quarters settled without a court ruling. Roane’s sunshine lawsuits comprise about 75% of the 80 cases he’s filed in state courts since 2019. “If I can help get people talking about sunshine laws and paying attention to this stuff, keeping government accountable, then I feel like we’re moving in the right direction.” “I can’t think of another way to go about trying to change the system,” Roane said in a phone interview from his home in Pagosa Springs, a town in southwestern Colorado. Since 2019, he’s filed 60 civil complaints in Colorado courts against 47 school districts, two boards of county commissioners, two towns, one metropolitan district and a small city. (CN) - Colorado attorney Matt Roane advocates for open meetings and public records from school districts and local governments statewide.
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