Lucy Lawsuit: CORA Watch – Day 5
Five business days, no acknowledgment. Adams 14 Schools has blown past Colorado’s legal deadline to respond to a public-records request about its legal spending in Kim v. Adams 14 School District.
When public records go missing, context fills the gap.
It’s now the fifth business day since The Snoot Report submitted a routine Colorado Open Records Act request to Adams 14 Schools.
That means the district has officially blown through the three-day response window required by law—and we’re now a day-and-a-half into the “exigent-circumstances” overtime—without even a polite “we got your email.”
Why this CORA matters
Adams 14 is ranked last in Colorado. Taxpayers deserve to know how much of their education budget is being redirected from classrooms to unnecessary legal battles.
And so, our request seeks invoices, purchase orders, and payments related to the district’s legal defense, including any work by attorney Joseph Salazar or the firm Caplan & Earnest LLC.
Background: The lawsuit that didn’t need to happen
The records we requested concern Kim v. Adams County School District 14, a federal suit alleging a laundry list of civil right violations.
“All Craig Kim wanted,” a reliable source told The Snoot, “was an apology.”
This all began when Craig Kim, a Commerce City councilmember, sent an email questioning a new principal hire. He cited a 2022 audit and a publicly reported controversy from the principal’s prior job—routine political speech in any democracy still on speaking terms with itself.
What followed reads like the first act of a mockumentary: Board Director Lucy Molina livestreamed a meeting while accusing Kim of racism, sexism, and physical aggression, then claimed to feel threatened by his presence.
Witness statements suggest there was no “physical confrontation,” yet the district banned Kim from all school property for three years.
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