Our legal team is constantly working on critical cases across the state. Below, you can find some of the cases we have been a part of.
At a meeting scheduled in June, 2009, the Grand Junction City council planned to enact a broad ordinance to outlaw asking for charity. In a letter emailed to all members of Grand Junction's City Council,...
In Craig, Colorado, the City Charter prohibits candidates for city offices from spending more than $500 in an election campaign, and violation is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine and up to 180 days in...
In 2008, Blake Benson was a student at Dakota Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado. The day before the 2008 national presidential election, Michele Obama came to Benson's school to deliver an...
This suit, filed on behalf of Colorado resident Luis Quezada, asserts that Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink illegally imprisoned the ACLU’s client for 47 days in 2009 simply because federal immigration...
The City of Colorado Springs had a long history of conducting “sweeps” of public parks and other public areas where the City’s homeless commonly slept, ostensibly for cleaning up the parks and discarding...
In January, concerned parents from a town in northeastern Colorado informed the ACLU of Colorado that public school officials were offering free copies of the New Testament to all fifth grade students. The...