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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.

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Aug 30, 2010

National Security Agency Warrantless Surveillance

Privacy & Technology

The ACLU of Colorado called upon the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and Colorado Attorney General to investigate reports (first made public in a May 11, 2006 USA Today article) that telephone...

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Aug 27, 2010

ACLU Asks Denver Police Internal Affairs to Re-open Investigation Into Racial Profiling Incident

Criminal Legal Reform

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...

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Aug 24, 2010

ACLU sues to obtain Denver's MOU with FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force

Criminal Legal Reform

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This lawsuit, ACLU v. City and County of Denver, relies on the...

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Aug 23, 2010

When A Strip Search Isn't Enough: Dept. of Corrections' Degrading Addition to Searching Women

Criminal Legal Reform

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Aug 20, 2010

The ACLU of Colorado urges Governor Ritter to consider Secure Communities' many civil rights issues

Criminal Legal Reform

ACLU of Colorado Staff Attorney Taylor Pendergrass sent a letter to Governor Ritter today, urging him to give serious consideration to the concerns we have raised about the Secure Communities Program. We...

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Aug 9, 2010

Clay v. Pelle

Criminal Legal Reform
This lawsuit challenges a new policy of the Boulder County Jail that forbids prisoners to send letters and instead restricts their outgoing correspondence to postcards supplied by the jail.  The only...
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