Will Trachman, general counsel for Mountain States, was interviewed by The Denver Gazette in its story on Denver Public Schools’ poor track record of complying with Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) requests for public records and information. Trachman, a former official in the federal Department of Education and general counsel for Douglas County School District, is something of an expert in the field of public education law.
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Officials ultimately released aggregated data provided at the request of other media outlets on the number of threat assessments and students requiring a pat down. But they did so only after The Denver Gazette requested a meeting with the district’s attorneys.
āI think they are absolutely in the mindset of trying to reduce the number of documents that go out the door because they donāt want to be embarrassed,ā said Will Trachman, general counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation.
