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Financial Disclosures

Colorado judges, like other public office holders, are required to make annual public disclosures about their financial interests.

This is to allow accountability on conflicts of interest. Failing to file these disclosures is a crime.

In 2023, reporters revealed that large numbers of judges, maybe over 100, were not filing the required disclosures.

The discipline commission started investigations of these reports and, as of the date of this writing, the public has heard nothing more.

How is a voter to make an informed decision about a judge in this system?

How to find a judge's financial disclosure:

Follow this link to the Colorado Secretary of State's website - fill out this online form:

https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/CampaignFinance/requestCopy.html 

Judges the Gazette reported as failing to file.

  • Is your judge on the list?

  • Are you about to vote for a judge on the list?

  • Has the judge faced any accountability for breaking the disclosure law?

  • Did a legitimate investigation clear the judge of wrongdoing?

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As this is written and an election approaches, we voters in Colorado have no idea how these investigations came out.

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"Two different district court judges - each with four years of missing disclosures ... - sit on judicial discipline commissions whose job it is to punish jurists for their misconduct." 

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                              Denver Gazette, August 10, 2023

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