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.
Vincent Garcia committed suicide in the El Paso County Jail in 1983. His family filed a wrongful death and civil rights action against the sheriff and the Board of County Commissioners. When the case was...
This case raises the question of when, if ever, a victim of domestic violence who obtains a court order of protection can sue for damages caused by the failure of police officers who ignore repeated pleas...
In June, 2006, ACLU attorneys traveled to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to investigate prisoners’ complaints about abusive practices in the Garfield County Jail. (The practices under investigation are the...
Homeless persons in Boulder are at risk of being prosecuted under a city ordinance that prohibits “camping.” The law prohibits sleeping outside with “shelter,” which Boulder defines to include any...
In this case, the ACLU asserts that the Denver Police Department (DPD) violated the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act when it refused to disclose any documents from the file of its investigation of the...
In 2010, ACLU lawyers wrote to the Colorado Department of Revenue about a policy that unreasonably interferes with the ability of thousands of young persons to obtain Colorado state identification cards...