Written and verbal requests to the Eagle Police Department for what is usually public information were met Thursday and Friday with slammed doors and arrest threats from acting Eagle Police Chief Gary Ward.

"The Eagle Police Department improperly refused to provide the requested public documents to the reporter, which doesn't comply with the Freedom of Information Act and the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act," said Vail Daily attorney Rohn Robbins.

In refusing the request, Ward said in a written statement that he is the "custodian of records" for the Eagle Police Department, and that the requested records were "criminal justice records."

Robbins asserted that the request was not for criminal justice records, but for responses to a particular address in the town of Eagle, which he said falls under administrative records.