Colorado Sun, 9News were denied child abuse hotline data four years ago. The case is now at the state’s highest court.

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A legal battle over child abuse hotline data requested four years ago by The Colorado Sun and 9News has reached the Colorado Supreme Court. The case centers on the news organizations’ joint request under the Colorado Open Records Act for the number of calls made to the state child abuse hotline from three child residential treatment centers in the Denver area from 2018 to 2021. At the time, the centers — Cleo Wallace, Tennyson Center for Children and Mount Saint Vincent — were state-licensed residential centers. It asked for the number of calls made during those three years from each center and the number of calls that were investigated. The Colorado Court of Appeals previously sided with The Colorado Sun and 9News, and the case then went to the state Supreme Court.