On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, federal immigration officers detained, arrested, handcuffed, and cited a legal observer at Denver Immigration Court while the legal observer was lawfully observing the detention of an immigrant family.

After a decades-long career in social justice advocacy and nonprofit leadership, Deborah Richardson, ACLU of Colorado Executive Director, has announced her upcoming retirement. She will serve as executive director until June 20, 2025.

The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Colorado today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records regarding the agency’s potential plans to expand immigration detention across Colorado and Wyoming.

Patients, parents, health care providers, state workers, and community advocates have invited Congressional Representative Gabe Evans to attend an April 25 community townhall about the future of Medicaid.

With new civil liberties abuses coming to light daily and the Trump administration’s hubris showing no signs of abating, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Colorado will host a town hall this President’s Day alongside community partners and constituents to educate, mobilize, and appl

The ACLU of Colorado filed a lawsuit against an Aurora landlord today after repeated threats to report tenants to immigration authorities. The plaintiffs, proceeding under pseudonyms John Doe and Jane Roe, are a Venezuelan couple residing in Aurora, Colorado, with their two sons. Both Doe and Roe ha

On January 14, 2025, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission honored ACLU of Colorado Executive Director Deborah Richardson with the Honorable Dr. Menola Upshaw Lifetime Achievement Award.

The ACLU of Colorado, representing C.C., a student at Elizabeth High School, E.S., a student in the Elizabeth School District (ESD), the NAACP – Colorado – Montana – Wyoming State Area Conference (NAACP), and the Authors Guild, sued the Elizabeth School District for removing books

In a letter to the CBI, the ACLU of Colorado calls for a thorough, independent audit and demands transparency with the public about CBI’s response