GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.—A government watchdog group says a meeting in which a quorum of Garfield County commissioners discussed oil shale policy behind closed doors may have violated Colorado’s open-meeting laws.
Colorado Common Cause used open-records requests to obtain documents relating to the meeting in March in Vernal, Utah. The group says the documents confirm the meeting was organized with the intention of having politicians and industry representatives from Utah, Wyoming and Colorado draft a policy position on the federal government’s latest oil-shale development plan.
Common Cause says Garfield County’s three commissioners violated Colorado’s open meetings laws by all remaining in the meeting when it went into executive session.
Commissioner Tom Jankovsky told the Post Independent on Thursday () that he didn’t know beforehand that the meeting would be private.
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Information from: Post Independent,
