{"id":13051,"date":"2025-08-12T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:34:25","slug":"denver-post-doxxes-citizens-for-sharing-pictures-and-public-records-about-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/denver-post-doxxes-citizens-for-sharing-pictures-and-public-records-about-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Post Doxxes Citizens For Sharing Pictures And Public Records About Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Headline article at bottom) This article is fantastic all because of this quote from a fellow Denver Post columnist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeople who claim to be citizen journalists must stand by their work with a byline and endure the negative comments and threats that come with the job,\u201d wrote Denver Post columnist Krista Kafer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look into the Denver Post which is an OCGFC propaganda media property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Post<\/em> was the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc.<\/a>, founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton<\/a> and Richard Scudder<\/a>. On December 1, 1987, MediaNews, a national newspaper chain with over 60 daily newspapers and over 160 non-daily publications in 13 states, bought The Denver Post<\/em> from Times Mirror Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, The Denver Post<\/em> has been owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital<\/a>, which acquired its bankrupt parent company, MediaNews Group.[4]<\/a><\/sup> In April 2018, a group called “Together for Colorado Springs” said that it was raising money to buy the Post<\/em> from Alden Global Capital, stating: “Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom.”[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Denver_Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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And now owned by a hedge fund with over 200 newspapers and as of 2020 had $764,764,000 under management, and the second largest newspaper publisher in the US. This kind of control is why major newspapers are trash with no connection to their local markets, filled with doxxing presstitutes apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alden Global Capital<\/strong> is a hedge fund<\/a> based in Manhattan<\/a>, New York City. It was founded in 2007 by Randall D. Smith<\/a>,[2]<\/a><\/sup> and is a division of Smith Management LLC.[3]<\/a>[4]<\/a><\/sup> Its managing director is Heath Freeman<\/a>.[2]<\/a>[5]<\/a><\/sup> By mid-2020, Alden had stakes in roughly two hundred American newspapers.[6]<\/a>[7]<\/a><\/sup> The company added more newspapers to its portfolio in May 2021 when it purchased Tribune Publishing<\/a> and became the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States.[8]<\/a>[9]<\/a>[10]<\/a>[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alden_Global_Capital<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Goes to show that most major city newspapers are propaganda mills, which has pretty much always been the case going back before radio and television. And why in this age the OCGFC are desperate to censor the internet as it’s a threat to their control, and why they are so threatened by citizens reporting actual truth that is jeopardizing their agenda in Denver, as I’d read this as an attempt to intimidate other people from joining in with this citizen group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/12\/denver-post-doxxes-citizens-for-sharing-pictures-and-public-records-about-crime\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Joy Pullmann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Aug. 1, The Denver Post exposed<\/a> the names, locations, voter registrations, and employment of three private citizens who legally obtained public information and sent some to the popular social media account Do Better Denver<\/a>. On Aug. 7, a Denver Post columnist<\/a> defended the paper\u2019s decision to dox the three women for sharing public information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople who claim to be citizen journalists must stand by their work with a byline and endure the negative comments and threats that come with the job,\u201d wrote Denver Post columnist Krista Kafer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post identified the three people it doxxed by doing a public records request for those women\u2019s public records requests: \u201cThe Post filed open records requests to obtain copies of requests tied to DoBetterDNVR,\u201d wrote The Post\u2019s crime reporter Shelly Bradbury in her Aug. 1 article. On Aug. 5, the Denver Gazette confirmed <\/a>the three doxxed women are not the account administrator. The public records they shared with the accountholder comprise less than 1 percent of Do Better Denver posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradbury also wrote that the Post targeted the women specifically for exercising their legal rights to view public information. The three, Bradbury wrote, \u201cstand out because of their involvement in the account since its early days in 2023, their connections to each other, and because they did not just send a single video or photo to the account but pursued information through open records requests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do Better Denver alleged the Post did this at the behest of local government officials angry about public disclosures of their activities. One public record one of the women discovered, for example, showed the city paid $2.1 million for vacant rooms for illegal immigrants. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston\u2019s spokesman did not respond to Federalist requests for comment Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat particular post by DoBetterDNVR is emblematic of the type of misinformation they push,\u201d wrote Denver Post Editor Lee Ann Colacioppo in an email response to a Federalist request for comment. \u201cThe mayor\u2019s office played no role whatsoever in our decision to pursue the story and it was entirely the idea of the reporter to submit the CORAs. It was an obvious course of action given DoBetter has posted extensive information about their CORAs, including when they filed them, the exact words they used in their requests, the costs, the responsive records, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Colorado, open records requests are often referred to as CORA requests, after the state\u2019s open records law. Traditionally, journalists have fought to expand the public\u2019s right to know what public officials do with public institutions and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anonymous Do Better Denver administrator said the account receives death threats for posting public records about people with criminal records that include<\/a> kidnapping, battery, and work for terrorist gangs such as Tren de Aragua<\/a> (TDA). The administrator uses a \u201cburner phone,\u201d stays anonymous, and takes other preventative measures because of those threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, a CBS investigation found<\/a> Johnston\u2019s staff stopped communicating in emails subject to open records requests after they received records requests from a conservative legal group about the city\u2019s refusal to enforce immigration laws. Johnston\u2019s staff switched to an encrypted app that automatically deletes messages, which could violate open records laws, attorneys told CBS and The Denver Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aug. 1 Post article says Denver police stopped responding to information requests in March from Do Better Denver on X at the direction of the mayor\u2019s office. In defense of its decision to dox the three women, the Post quotes a woman whose arrest for assaulting a police officer was posted<\/a> on Do Better Denver: \u201cDon\u2019t dish out what you can\u2019t take,\u201d Serena Palacios reportedly told the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens Sharing News of Public Interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since 2023, Do Better Denver\u2019s rapidly growing Instagram and X accounts have posted videos of public indecency, vagrancy, and crime, plus pictures of criminal records and crime- and vagrancy-related open records requests. Together, the accounts currently have nearly 150,000 followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accounts criticize public officials for sanctuary city policies inviting gang activity,<\/a> releasing violent criminals on low bonds, and otherwise enabling public disorder. Denver has sued the Trump administration<\/a> for opposing such policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really started to see things changing rapidly,\u201d the administrator, a Denver resident, told conservative journalist<\/a> and occasional Federalist contributor<\/a> Jimmy Sengenberger, \u201cciting rising crime, public drug use and the city\u2019s mass housing strategy for the homeless, many with substance abuse issues,\u201d Sengenberger wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aug. 1 Denver Post article identified three people who occasionally volunteered information that Do Better Denver published: \u201cArizona resident Jill Osa, Denver resident Megan Anderson and New Mexico resident Alexandra Pacheco.\u201d Osa and her husband own a Denver rental property, and Pacheco lived in Denver until recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacheco told local media<\/a> she quit working for one of the state\u2019s largest homelessness services providers over mismanagement. She witnessed<\/a> a homeless encampment exploding in flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osa told The Federalist in a Friday phone call that she asked Bradbury, Colacioppo, the Denver Post\u2019s parent company, and their lawyers not to publish identifying information about her family. They did anyway. She said the doxxing prompted threatening comments, including since-removed social media posts giving details about her home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little unnerving when the doorbell rings and you\u2019re wondering if it\u2019s a crazy person who is upset or it\u2019s a delivery person,\u201d Osa said. A family member underwent a major surgery the same week the Post articles published, making it difficult for Osa to focus on her family when they needed her, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After city officials didn\u2019t answer her questions about their plan to locate a homeless shelter adjacent to her Denver property, Osa began using public records requests to learn more. A small fraction of those she shared with Do Better Denver. She also did a handful of requests for the account after she\u2019d gotten comfortable using this basic transparency tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m just an average citizen who wanted answers and wasn\u2019t getting them when she went to her elected officials,\u201d Osa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homelessness Doubles in Denver Despite Hundreds of Millions Spent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Johnston promised<\/a> to \u201cend homelessness in my first term.\u201d This June, two years into his first term, Denver hit record homeless numbers<\/a>, nearly doubling since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, Denver voters narrowly rejected<\/a> a ballot initiative to raise the city\u2019s sales tax by $100 million for more homeless housing<\/a>. This fall, Denver voters will again vote<\/a> on a Johnston proposal to increase their taxes by $1 billion for, among other items, homeless services euphemistically described as \u201caffordable housing.\u201d Do Better Denver has posted numerous critiques of such policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston released a campaign plan<\/a> to create an additional 1,000 or more taxpayer-provided homeless beds by buying up hotels and using city land for \u201cmicrocommunities,\u201d such as the one planned for next to Osa\u2019s property. Enacted once he entered office, the initiative costs<\/a> taxpayers an estimated $57 million per year, a figure the city council didn\u2019t receive until a year after it started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city also has a forecasted budget deficit<\/a> of $250 million over the next two years, prompting layoffs and furloughs of a city workforce that grew by 4,000 in the last decade of Democrat mayors. The city also spent $95 million on illegal alien subsidies from 2022 to 2024, and is suing the Trump administration to try to keep the federal portion of those funds after the president canceled federal dollars for sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city of Denver has a $44 million rental contract<\/a> from 2024 through 2029 with the Denver Post\u2019s parent company, DP Media Network LLC, and in 2024 approved an $89 million contract to go into debt to purchase the same former Denver Post building. The city plans to turn the building into courtrooms partly to meet the increase<\/a> in cases sparked by<\/a> the state shifting numerous felony offenses into misdemeanors in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addiction is a top cause of homelessness. Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. In 2019, Colorado shifted<\/a> the penalty for possession of heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and numerous other highly addictive drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor. Denver and Colorado also operate numerous \u201charm reduction\u201d programs<\/a> that subsidize drug usage by providing sterilized supplies. Johnston\u2019s office has repeatedly publicly attacked<\/a> Do Better Denver for documenting the consequences of such policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before becoming Denver mayor, Johnston also served as the CEO<\/a> of an endowment<\/a> organization that is financially involved in homeless policies, Gary Community Ventures<\/a> (Gary). As CEO, Johnston more than doubled<\/a> the foundation\u2019s spending on state politics and doubled its spending on Denver politics. In 2021, Gary was the largest spender on successfully opposing a Denver proposal to restrict homeless housing projects in single-family neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to its public tax and other records<\/a>, Gary spends millions pushing for low-expectations housing policies and investing in such projects<\/a> once approved. Gary and Johnston advocated<\/a> for Proposition 123, a 2023 state tax increase that included $54 million to pay rent for homeless people and prevent evictions. Developers salivated <\/a>over the flow of taxpayer funds for their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary also funds<\/a> numerous homeless<\/a> housing initiatives<\/a> in Denver, which typically operate<\/a> on the controversial \u201chousing first\u201d model. That requires no contributions from recipients in exchange for taxpayer and charitable benefits, such as work, sobriety, or lack of criminal behavior. President Trump also targeted this approach in a July executive order<\/a>, pulling federal funds from such models in favor of sobriety and a \u201cwork first\u201d approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johston, a former school principal and state senator, has also unsuccessfully run<\/a> for Colorado governor and U.S. senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Cartels Target Scrappy Competitors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PolitiFact has a massive amount of financial resources<\/a> and previously had a censorship contract with Facebook. The Post has between<\/a> 5 and 6 million readers per month and between <\/a>500 and 1,000 employees, say company reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Post investigated the people behind the account because of its growing influence and the misinformation it spreads,\u201d says Bradbury\u2019s Aug. 1 article. \u201cWhile the account claims to be a news provider, its anonymity, lack of transparency and absence of public ethical standards undermine its credibility, said Kelly McBride, chair of the Craig<\/a> Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit that aims to bolster ethical journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poynter Institute runs one of the most notorious<\/a> mass censorship organizations<\/a>, the egregiously politicized<\/a> PolitiFact. PolitiFact is one of the top purveyors of misinformation in Western media. Examples include the Kyle Rittenhouse attack<\/a>, Wuhan lab-leak allegations<\/a>, teachers union demands <\/a>for school lockdowns, Joe Biden\u2019s tax plans<\/a>, and hundreds more<\/a>. Meanwhile, its parent institution runs around smearing people with social media accounts who could never erase their critics from the internet like PolitiFact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her latest book with Regnery is “False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.” A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include the NEW “300 Classic Books for Ages 9 to Adult<\/a>,” the bestselling “Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,” and “101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.” An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural. Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula. Her traditionally published books also include “The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,” from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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