Colorado

Colorado's Open Records Act (CORA) provides public access to most records held by state and local government entities, with enumerated exemptions for personnel and investigative files.

Hybrid centralized/decentralized model. Small purchase threshold $150,000; formal competition above $150,000 for goods/services, $500,000 for IT. Sustainability and social value requirements in procurement.

First-of-its-kind US state law regulating high-risk artificial intelligence systems. Effective February 2026, it imposes duties on developers and deployers to use reasonable care to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination in consequential decisions.

Colorado's comprehensive privacy law modeled on the CCPA structure. Grants residents access, deletion, correction, portability, and opt-out rights, and requires data protection assessments for high-risk processing.