Court Cases

This case involves the unconstitutional arrest and imprisonment of a student and CopWatch volunteer, Evan Herzoff, who was guilty of nothing more than asking for a police officer’s business card.

In response to a letter from the ACLU of Colorado, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office posted a disclaimer on their online arrest report website ensuring that no observer visiting the site would believe that the report listed persons who had been convicted of committing a crime.

This lawsuit against Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman seeks disclosure of the records of an internal investigation into allegations that Denver police officers engaged in racial profiling, harassment, and used excessive force in an encounter with an African American resident of Denver in April 2002.

For many years, a Colorado statute has provided that persons on parole—approximately 6000 in Colorado—are forbidden to vote or to register to vote. C.R.S. § 1-2-103(4). This class action, filed in 2005 on behalf of approximately 6000 Colorado parolees, asserts that this statute violates the Colorado Constitution.

In this case, the ACLU challenges a federal regulation that imposes indefinite, potentially life-long detention on certain immigrants who are subject to final orders of removal (deportation) but cannot be sent back to their home counties.