Punishing Reformers
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06/29/2010	Cops bilk Bruce with open-records fees
For some, the state’s open records laws work only in theory. That’s because Colorado allows government to charge excessive fees for copies, search, retrieval and redaction of records.
06/29/2010	Bruce cries foul over $270 charge for public records
Bruce said the department wanted to charge him $270 to provide him a copy of about 100 pages, give or take a few. If he just wanted to review the records, he said the department would charge him so that someone could supervise him while he was reviewing them at the Police Department.
02/23/2010	Doug Bruce slammed with almost $40,000 in utility fees
“Just because you don’t like somebody, or he’s your political opponent, or he just beat you on Issue 300, you can’t charge him 400 times the going rate to turn on the valves,” Bruce said at the Utilities’ monthly board meeting last week.