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ACLU of Colorado

@acluofcolorado.bsky.social

Making Colorado a firewall for freedom since 1952. Fighting in the courts, at the capitol, and in our communities. https://www.aclu-co.org | https://acluco.org/m/quick-link

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 22h ago

Colorado voters’ private data will not become a pawn in the federal government’s bogus voter suppression efforts.

ACLU@aclu.org · 24h ago

BREAKING: A federal court dismissed the DOJ's attempt to illegally seize the private data of millions of Colorado voters. In 20 out of 20 rulings, courts have prevented the Trump administration from unlawfully accessing voters' private information.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE is collecting more DNA in a radical expansion of its biometric surveillance. This is a threat to us all. www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our democracy needs an immigration system that is safe and fair — not a vast paramilitary force acting with impunity. www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. | ACLU

A new ACLU report reveals the scale of civil rights violations committed by ICE and the police forces it has deputized — from racial profiling to school lockdowns.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d ago

ACLU affiliates across the country have filed 54 claims against immigration agents seeking to hold them accountable for violence and misconduct against U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, families, and people exercising their First Amendment rights.

ACLU Seeks Government Payouts for Immigration Agent Misconduct

“I'm an ordinary woman, and I want to stand up,” one of the ACLU clients said.

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ACLU @aclu.org · last wk.

BREAKING: ACLU affiliates are filing 54 claims against the federal government across 17 states and DC on behalf of people who’ve suffered serious violence and abuse at the hands of federal immigration agents. The Trump administration is not above the law.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 7d ago

BREAKING: We just filed three FTCA claims on behalf of a family that was unlawfully arrested and detained by ICE on their way to school. This is a first step towards accountability and justice.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last wk.

Reputable governments shouldn't do business with disreputable companies. It's time to pull the plug on Flock Safety and other automated license plate readers.⁠ ⁠ www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

Flock Lied About its ALPR technology. What Else Has It Lied About?

ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2w ago

After the Trump administration restricted federal child care and family assistance funding, we filed a FOIA request demanding answers. The administration is refusing to provide transparency — so we're taking them to court to get it.

Civil rights groups sue Trump administration over childcare funding restrictions

HHS failed to respond to Foia request following claims of fraud against Somali childcare providers and Democrats

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're hiring! Our policy team is looking for a new Policy Associate to support our work. Learn more and apply at www.aclu-co.org/jobs/policy-....

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2w ago

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for withholding information about their unprecedented restrictions on federal child care and family assistance funding. The public deserve to know why the administration is limiting funding access to these essential programs.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 3w ago

We demand a transparent investigation involving state and local officials, as ICE and its private contractors have shown themselves to be dangerous, destructive, and outside the law. They must be stopped.

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ACLU of Colorado Condemns GEO Employee Shooting of Protester at Aurora GEO Detention Center

On the evening of Thursday, July 16, a woman was shot in the leg by an employee of the GEO Group, Inc. outside of the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. According to news reports, the GEO Group employee was later arrested.

The following statement can be attributed to ACLU of Colorado Executive Director Olivia Mendoza:

"We are furious to learn of the shooting outside the GEO detention facility in Aurora. Not only are immigrant communities being terrorized by ICE and federal agents, now protesters who are exercising their First Amendment right must also fear violence by people employed as ICE contractors.

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“ICE and its employees are out of control and must face accountability. This shooting comes on the heels of recent reports revealing a tuberculosis outbreak that GEO is refusing to let health officials investigate, poor water quality, and a new ACLU of Colorado report documenting the terrible conditions inside the facility.

“There is a lot we do not yet know. What we do already know is that ICE and its private immigration contractors at the GEO Group are making our communities less safe and threatening the Constitutional rights of people exercising free speech. The violence of this administration’s immigration agents is spreading to the private detention corporations themselves.

“The GEO Group is a corporation that owns or operates nearly two dozen immigration detention centers in the U.S. and is financially profiting off the drastically increasing number of people that the Trump administration is incarcerating in their facilities. The GEO Group has earned billions since the Trump administration took office.

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“The GEO Group was recently given a contract to operate another immigration detention center in Hudson, Colorado. In total the GEO Group operates 51 facilities across the U.S., including private prisons, processing centers, administrative offices, and private probation.

“As ICE and its private contractors continue their reckless, and unlawful actions, our fight against their injustices will remain relentless. The ACLU of Colorado will never stop asserting, defending, and protecting Coloradans’ civil liberties.

“In the hours and days to come, we will learn more about this shooting. We demand a transparent investigation involving state and local officials, as this rogue agency and its private contractors have shown themselves to be dangerous, destructive, and outside the law. They must be stopped.”

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 3w ago

FILED: We submitted a brief urging the Colorado Supreme Court to hear a man’s case after he languished in jail for months suffering from acute psychosis. He was waiting for the state to restore him to competency, thus delaying his trial.

ACLU @aclu.org · 3w ago

President Trump’s blatant disregard for the will of the American people was on full display during tonight’s speech. His sweeping, recycled claims are an attempt to undermine previous results and sow chaos into our current election processes.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Trump administration’s immigration detention machine has brutalized and violated the rights of countless people. Hudson town officials must do all they can to rein it in. coloradosun.com/2026/07/16/p...

People urge Hudson town leaders to fight immigration detention center

Dozens of protestors urged Hudson town officials to fight the opening of an immigration detention center some dubbed an ICE “concentration camp.”

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: We released a report detailing the Trump administration’s record expansion of immigration detention, the troubling history of inhumane treatment at the Aurora GEO Detention Facility, and how ICE thwarts congressional oversight.

The Colorado Sun ☀️@coloradosun.com · 3w ago

The GEO Group is blocking a tuberculosis investigation at the Aurora ICE facility, county health officials say

GEO Group, which operates the Aurora immigration detention facility, is blocking a tuberculosis investigation, county health officials say.

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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 3w ago

Breaking: ICE and private prison giant Geo Group have signed a five-year contract to open a new, nearly 1,200-bed immigrant detention center in Hudson, Colorado, north of Denver. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/13/c...

ICE signs contract to open new immigration detention center northeast of Denver

The private prison giant Geo Group has signed a multiyear contract with the Trump administration to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado, and turn it into an immigration detention center.

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded The GEO Group, Inc. a five-year contract to open and operate a new immigration detention center in Hudson, Colorado. We condemn this expansion. Our full statement:

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ACLU of Colorado Condemns opening of Long-Shuttered Prison as Immigration Detention Facility

The GEO Group, Inc (GEO) announced on July 13, 2026, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded GEO a five-year contract to open and operate a new immigration detention center in Hudson, Colorado. The ACLU of Colorado condemns the opening of another immigration detention center in the state, what is now being called the Big Horn Facility, a former prison that has been moth-balled for more than a decade and was known as the Hudson Correctional Facility.

“ICE’s covert opening of the Hudson facility is another disgraceful and shameful example of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant fanaticism,” said Olivia Mendoza, ACLU of Colorado executive director. “ICE has resisted oversight and accountability for decades. Instead of reining in the agency, both Congress and the Trump administration have poured unprecedented amounts of money into fulfilling the campaign’s mass detention and deportation agenda. This is a profound betrayal of Colorado’s values — all while shareholders profit enormously from human suffering and misery.”

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“At every turn, ICE has made it nearly impossible for the public to learn about its plans for expanded detention here in Colorado,” said Tim Macdonald, ACLU of Colorado legal director. “We have fought tooth and nail over the last year through public records litigation to get basic information about ICE’s expansion plan, but ICE has tried to hide those plans behind heavily redacted documents at every turn. As ICE and the GEO Group proceed to reopen this long-dormant prison, we will fight for transparency, oversight, and accountability.”

“Coloradans do not support ICE’s mass detention and deportation agenda, in fact, they have been actively fighting it,” said Jen Samano, ACLU of Colorado director of advocacy. “For months, people have been organizing to stop the reopening of the Hudson facility, urging local and state officials to do what they can to halt this expansion or demand stronger oversight and transparency. We will continue to do so. Our immigrant neighbors deserve to thrive, and to live in peace, not in fear of being disappeared into dangerous and inhumane detention camps.”

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The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Colorado filed a lawsuit against ICE in April 2025 after the agency failed to respond to public records requests about expanding immigration detention capacity in Colorado and Wyoming. The documents revealed that the Hudson facility was one of several facilities jockeying to scale the Trump administration’s detention expansion. ACLU of Colorado attorneys pressured ICE into releasing less redacted documents outlining details about the Hudson facility, as well as additional internal emails.

The Denver Contract Detention Facility, more commonly known as the GEO facility in Aurora, Colorado, is another immigration detention facility in Colorado operated by GEO. It is infamous for its brutal conditions, medical neglect, inadequate nutrition, and restrictions on legal counsel for people in detention.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 4w ago

From processing delays to detentions, the Trump administration has steadily undermined protections for people brought to the United States as children. Dreamers deserve a pathway to citizenship. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/01/t...

A Dying Dream: How Trump Targets Immigrants Who Arrived as Children

Polls say Americans support protecting DACA recipients from deportation. Now some are being detained.

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 4w ago

Whether it's Flock Safety, Axon, or another company, automated license plate readers are a clear and present danger to our civil liberties. It's time for the City of Boulder to reject the creep of surveillance and shut the cameras off for good. www.dailycamera.com/2026/07/09/b...

Boulder should halt use of Flock – and all other automatic license plate readers (Opinion)

Changing the logo on Boulder’s Flock cameras will not change the privacy-violating architecture of automatic license plate readers. The history and potential for this tech to be abused cannot be refor...

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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 4w ago

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 4w ago

A week after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that birthright citizenship is the law of the land, let us be reminded that President Trump doesn't get to decide who is a citizen. www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

Supreme Court Rules to Protect Birthright Citizenship

The ruling held that Trump's effort to get rid of birthright citizenship was unconstitutional. President Donald Trump attempted to attack birthright citizenship. We defeated him in court, proving his ...

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · 4w ago

Shocking footage shows how a Florida police officer almost caused a head-on collision after stalking a woman using automated license plate readers. These cameras keep being abused by law enforcement officers for personal ends. It's time to shut them off for good. www.404media.co/footage-show...

Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader

A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.

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ACLU @aclu.org · last mo.

Voting is a right, not a privilege.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last mo.

This a victory for our immigrant neighbors and the rule of law. The Tenth Circuit now joins a multitude of other courts in rejecting this punitive policy. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/06/30/10th-circuit-rebuffs-government-rules-against-shift-to-mandatory-immigration-detention/

10th Circuit rebuffs government, rules against shift to mandatory immigration detention

The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday against the government’s broad assertion of authority to keep people in immigration custody without the opportunity to demonstrate their suitabi...

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: The Tenth Circuit unanimously rejected ICE’s policy of mandatory detention without bond. ICE must now give a bond hearing or release a longtime U.S. resident who has been in immigration detention for months.

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last mo.

Ouray County has activated emergency voting. Voters impacted by the Gold Mountain Fire that cannot vote in person or drop off their ballot can vote online. Visit ouraycountyco.gov/328/Election-Information for more information.

Election Information | Ouray County, CO - Official Website

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ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last mo.

While the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to trans rights this term, Colorado still has strong protections for LGBTQ+ students. Here’s what you need to know.

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"Colorado law includes explicit and enforceable protections for LGBTQ+ students.

Schools cannot discriminate against LGBTQ+ students, including student athletes, based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

School employees cannot knowingly or deliberately refuse to use a student’s chosen name and districts must have a written policy to honor name change requests."

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"Schools must allow a person to use restrooms, locker rooms, or other gender-segregated facilities that align with their gender identity.

Public secondary schools with extracurricular clubs must allow and treat Gay-Straight Alliance clubs equally. This includes equal access to meeting spaces, announcements, and posters.

Colorado bans conversion therapy on minors by licensed mental health professionals."

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"Here’s what to do if your rights are violated as a student:

Document what happened. Write down the date, time, names of people involved, and what was said or done. Keep screenshots of emails, messages, or policies.

Talk to a trusted adult. This could be a teacher, counselor, GSA advisor, or relative who can advocate for you."

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"Request support in writing. If a school refuses to use your chosen name or denies access to facilities, submit a written request referencing applicable Colorado laws. Be sure to keep a copy.

File a complaint with your school district. Every district has an equity or Title IX coordinator. They must investigate reports of discrimination and harassment.

File a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division (CCRD).

Contact LGBTQ+ rights organizations like One Colorado, GLSEN, PFLAG, or the ACLU of Colorado."

ACLU of Colorado @acluofcolorado.bsky.social · last mo.

Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. No one — not even the president — can take away this foundational promise enshrined in our Constitution. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds

The decision firmly rejected the executive order that Trump issued on the first day of his second term.

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ACLU @aclu.org · last mo.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order attempting to overturn birthright citizenship. This historic decision reaffirms that the Constitution — not the president — defines who gets to be a citizen.