Court Cases

This case alleges that Denver police targeted plaintiff Jose Sanchez unjustifiably while he was standing lawfully on the public sidewalk outside the home of his girlfriend, plaintiff Joshinna Carreras.

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.

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.

After receiving numerous complaints from patients at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP), the ACLU of Colorado initiated an investigation into allegations of a mass strip search and search of patient’s property. The investigation resulted in CMHIP revising its written policies and procedures.

This case, which names the Weld County sheriff and district attorney as defendants, challenges the validity of the search warrant and the subsequent search of tax records and asserts that Weld County officials violated the right of privacy of thousands of innocent taxpayers who were not suspected of any wrongdoing.

The ACLU filed this lawsuit on behalf of Mercedes Archuleta, who was falsely arrested, strip-searched, and jailed on the basis of a groundless and wrongfully obtained arrest warrant that accused her of a Lakewood ordinance violation with which she had no connection whatsoever.