Colorado HB26-1422

HB26-1422 compliance, handled.

Colorado now lets officials request that their personal information be redacted from records your agency posts online — and puts the duty to do it on you. Civic Scrub takes the request from intake to a posted, redacted record: targeted to that one person, statute-cited, approved by your clerk, and burned in for good.

What the law requires

The request

An elected or appointed official (or one in office within the last four years) may ask a state or local government to redact their personal information from records it posts online.

The duty

The government entity that posts the record must honor the request — remove the personal information while keeping the record itself public.

The scope

Personal information means home address, personal phone, personal email and the like — not the official’s name or their public/official contact, which stay public.

The timing

HB26-1422 was signed in 2026 and takes effect in 2026. Verify the exact effective date against the current bill text before relying on it.

How Civic Scrub handles it

Targeted, not blanket

You give the official and their personal values; Civic Scrub redacts only those — and close variants — and leaves the rest of the record readable. The public record stays public.

A statute behind the mark

Each redaction is tied to its legal basis, so the record shows why the information was withheld.

A clerk approves every mark

Nothing is removed automatically. Your clerk reviews and approves each proposed redaction. The human is always the final decision.

Burned in, not blacked out

Approved redactions are rasterized into the document — the underlying text is destroyed, not hidden under a box that can be peeled off.

An append-only record

Every detection, proposal, and approval is written to a per-agency audit log — the chain of custody a public-records defense needs.

Built in Colorado · veteran-owned

A Colorado company for a Colorado mandate.

Civic Scrub is built by Drese Co. — a veteran-owned, Colorado Springs software company. We built this for HB26-1422 specifically: the workflow, the statute citations, and the burn-in are shaped around what your clerks actually have to do. We’re onboarding pilot agencies now.

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