CPA Legislative Committee

The Colorado Press Association Legislative Committee is in full swing planning for the 2012 legislative session.

Protection of public notices in legal newspapers is a top priority at CPA.

CPA Secretary and Legislative Committee Chair Bryce Jacobson, Craig Daily Press, is open to feedback, ideas and contributions to the committee's efforts. Committee members include: Jeremy Bangs, Douglas County News Press, David McClain, Sterling Journal-Advocate, Hillel Goldberg, Intermountain Jewish Press, Greg Romberg, CPA Lobbyist, and Don Lindley, Durango Herald.

Complete statewide legal and public notices are posted on the Colorado Legal Notice website www.coloradolegals.com powered by Newz Group.

All Colorado newspapers provide copies of their newspapers to Colorado Press Association and all legal and public notices are uploaded to ColoradoLegals.com for public access at no additional charge.

Colorado taxpayers have grown accustomed to finding public notice information in community newspapers and on community newspaper websites.

Taxpayers receive a variety of benefits from newspaper publication of such notices:

• Consistent and on-going third-party verification that the required reports are made available to the public.
• Newspapers provide a permanent archive of the reports that can be readily found by any member of the public.
• On a statewide level, citizens are able to research all legal notices published in Colorado newspapers in one centralized, searchable database.
• Such public notification is the least expensive form of advertising available in newspapers and government rates are set by law. In counties with more than one newspaper, government may require newspapers to bid.