In Re People in the interest of Minor Child C.J.T.

Summary

The court made the rule to show cause absolute after concluding that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to order nonparty disclosure of an unredacted workplace investigation report after terminating the underlying child-welfare case. It further held that the Ombudsman must use the Colorado Open Records Act rather than a motion in an unrelated case to obtain records, and that its authority extends only to information concerning child protection services that specified state or county departments could access. The court also rejected mootness because the issues presented matters of great public importance and ordered destruction or deletion of the unredacted report.