Comment on Effort to seal autopsy reports of minors in Colorado draws outcry from open-records advocates

Effort to seal autopsy reports of minors in Colorado draws outcry from open-records advocates

Proposed legislation that would bar the public in Colorado — on privacy grounds — from viewing autopsy reports on the deaths of minors is prompting resistance from open-records advocates who say it will make it harder to uncover mistakes in the child-protection system. The opponents, including media representatives, point to past reporting projects that relied in part on autopsy reports to hold child-protection officials accountable for failing to protect abused children who died.

 

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