US EditionColorado Officials Have Turned over Records to ICE Four Times This Year — Including Once by Mistake
DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO, JUL 22 – Governor Jared Polis declined to confirm if Colorado complied with nine subpoenas seeking personal data, amid legal challenges and a quadrupling of ICE arrests in the state.
- On Tuesday, Polis declined to comment on state compliance, with Shelby Wieman declining to respond Monday about handling nine ICE subpoenas since February.
- Under state law, agencies cannot hand over personal information, and this year, Colorado legislators expanded that ban to all subdivisions.
- Four subpoenas labeled `CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ENFORCEMENT SUBPOENA`, three `IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT SUBPOENA`, one `SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM`, an ICE subpoena labeled `immigration enforcement subpoena` was not signed by a judge.
- Last month, a state judge ruled the April ICE subpoena did not meet the criminal investigation exception, and barred Polis from requiring Scott Moss to comply.
- Meanwhile, the attorney general’s office will review agency communications, while Phil Weiser is launching a pattern-and-practice investigation into the Signal group chat, as civil penalties may apply.
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Colorado sheriff’s deputy who alerted ICE to Utah student violated state law, AG says
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Colorado governor won’t say if state handed over residents’ personal information to ICE
Did Gov. Jared Polis hand over Coloradans’ personal information to federal immigration officials? He won’t say. Shelby Wieman, a spokesperson for Polis, declined to respond to a question Monday about how the state has handled nine subpoenas received from the feds since February seeking personal information about Coloradans. Some of the subpoenas — obtained and published by The Colorado Sun on Friday — appear to be very similar to a subpoena that…
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