Court Cases

In this legal action, ACLU lawyers accuse officers of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of engaging in racial and ethnic stereotyping. They carried out an immigration roundup that violated the Fourth Amendment rights of dozens of Denver-area Spanish-speaking residents and resulted in the illegal arrest and illegal search of United States citizens and legal immigrants who had done absolutely nothing wrong.

Today the ACLU of Colorado asked the Denver Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau to re-open its investigation into two African-American citizens’ complaints of racial profiling arising from a traffic stop on February 13, 2009.

The ACLU and ACLU of Colorado called upon the Colorado Department of Corrections to abandon a new policy that subjects prisoners to degrading body cavity searches.

CSU allows students to hang Amendment 44 flyers after involvement by the ACLU of Colorado.

The ACLU of Colorado defended the right of a public employee to wear a three and one-half inch button that said “U.S. Out of Iraq.”

The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office improved legal access for prisoners at the Yuma County Jail after ACLU of Colorado Staff Attorney Taylor Pendergrass raised concerns about the jail’s policy.

A Denver metro area city abandoned efforts to criminally prosecute a high school student based upon comments allegedly directed toward a neighbor after the ACLU of Colorado asserted that the prosecution was patently unconstitutional.