Colorado
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Colorado (CO) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Colorado counts here.
This is not the same set as Colorado's jurisdiction page, which records the 3 entries where Colorado's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
11 entries · 7 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Aurora city 3 entries
Colorado Newsline reported ICE held protected T-visa applicant 120+ days, then released him out of state without ID
Colorado Newsline reported on August 31, 2026 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement held Rudy Villeda Mejía, a Honduran national with a pending T-visa application, at its Aurora, Colorado facility for more than 120 days despite a May 2026 federal court order barring ICE from detaining pending T-visa applicants. ICE transported him to a staging facility in Louisiana in early August, and shortly after his arrival a judge ordered his release on August 3 and barred his re-detention, but ICE released him there without his passport or work permit, leaving his family and attorney unable to locate him for a period before he was able to return home.
ICE and GEO Group denied an elderly priest in Aurora detention adequate testing for suspected tuberculosis and cancer symptoms
Colorado Newsline reported August 14, 2026 that Edward Nalwamba, a 78-year-old retired Anglican priest from Uganda held at the GEO Group-run Aurora ICE Processing Center since September 2025, has become severely malnourished, wheelchair-bound after a fall, and continues to present chest pain and a chronic cough consistent with tuberculosis, along with an elevated prostate-specific antigen level suggesting possible cancer. His attorney says the facility has provided only cough medicine and no sputum culture, specialist workup, or other follow-up testing despite a positive TB skin test taken when he entered custody. Colorado public-health officials separately confirmed at least one active tuberculosis case at the same facility and issued orders requiring GEO's cooperation with their investigation.
GEO Group blocked a legally required tuberculosis investigation at the Aurora ICE detention facility
On July 15, 2026, Adams County, Colorado health officials reported that the GEO Group, the private operator of the Aurora ICE Processing Center, had failed to provide the legally required access needed to complete a public-health investigation into an active tuberculosis case at the facility. Investigators said they were denied access to the infected patient, medical records, and detainee-movement information despite a June 25 public health order requiring compliance. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied that the facility had any confirmed active cases or had violated any laws.
Colorado Springs city 2 entries
ICE re-arrests El Gamal family at first check-in, attempts deportation in defiance of federal release order
On April 25, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents re-arrested Hayam El Gamal and her five children at the family's first required post-release check-in in Colorado Springs, two days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery of the Western District of Texas ordered them freed pending their asylum proceedings. ICE routed the family onto a flight bound for Michigan and told them they would be deported to Egypt; the plane reversed course mid-air only after Judge Biery and U.S. District Judge Nina Wang of Colorado issued emergency orders Saturday evening directing that the family not be removed. The mother and her five children — held at the Dilley, Texas family detention center for more than ten months and never charged with any crime — were released again just after midnight on April 26.
Colorado Springs police officers tased suspect and threatened to kill him during 2025 arrest, federal judge found
On June 17, 2025, Colorado Springs officers Ryan Paine, Daniel Mork, and Kirby chased and arrested Anthony Miranda following a theft call, tasing him at least five times while Officer Kirby pressed his service weapon to Miranda's head and threatened to kill him as he lay pinned face-down. In an August 24, 2026 suppression order, U.S. District Senior Judge William J. Martínez found the tasing and death threat had rendered Miranda's statements from that phase of the encounter involuntary and suppressed them, while separately upholding the legality of the initial stop and Miranda's later, Mirandized statements.
Durango city 2 entries
CBP officer choked and shoved protester to the ground outside Durango, Colorado ICE facility
During an overnight protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango, Colorado, in the early morning of October 28, 2025, a masked Customs and Border Protection officer — later identified as Nicholas Rice — grabbed protester Franci Stagi's phone and threw it across the street, then put her in a chokehold and shoved her to the ground. Multiple bystander videos captured the encounter. The protest had begun in response to ICE's warrantless arrest of a Durango resident and his two children the previous morning.
ICE arrested a misidentified Durango asylum-seeker and his two children without a warrant en route to school
On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, a Colombian national with a pending asylum case, and his two children without a warrant as he drove them to school in Durango, Colorado. A senior ICE official later testified in federal court that Jaramillo-Solano had been mistaken for another person, but agents detained him anyway and transferred him to a Texas facility. The family was separated from the children's mother, and the arrest triggered days of protests outside the Durango ICE field office.
Castle Rock city 1 entry
Douglas County, CO commissioners rewrote citizens' ballot petition and added a competing question
Douglas County, Colorado commissioners Abe Laydon, George Teal, and Kevin Van Winkle adopted a resolution making themselves the panel that sets ballot titles, then on August 28, 2026 rewrote a certified citizen petition -- signed by nearly 23,000 residents and asking whether to expand the three-member county board to five -- to open with cost-estimate framing, and on August 31 added a second, commissioner-drafted question asking whether all five members should still be elected countywide. A state representative sued to remove both changes before ballots printed; a Douglas County judge ruled she lacked authority to intervene before the election even after finding the second question's wording didn't match the governing state statute, so both changes will appear on the November ballot as written.
Grand Junction city 1 entry
Grand Junction police fatally shot Patti Wilson, a transgender woman, firing into her fleeing car
On June 19, 2026, two Grand Junction, Colorado police officers responding to a report of a person with a knife at a Dairy Queen fired roughly 11 shots at Patti Wilson, a 31-year-old transgender woman, striking her twice as she drove away and killing her. Her fleeing vehicle then struck multiple other cars, injuring another person and overturning one. The department later identified the officers as Zachary Diaz and Tim Long, who were placed on paid administrative leave pending an independent 21st Judicial District investigation.
Jefferson County county 1 entry
Education Department found Colorado's Jefferson County schools violated Title IX, threatened funding over trans-inclusive policies
On March 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights concluded that Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado violated Title IX by letting students access overnight accommodations, facilities, and sports teams based on gender identity rather than biological sex. OCR gave the district 10 days to sign a resolution agreement adopting biology-based eligibility rules or face enforcement, a finding Jeffco disputed as resting on a data error mistaking coaches, trainers, and mascots for male athletes on girls' teams.
Walsenburg city 1 entry
Huerfano County jail staff denied dying inmate Michael Burch medical care for 8 days after tackle injury; he died in his cell
On March 28, 2023, a Huerfano County, Colorado detention officer tased and tackled 69-year-old inmate Michael Burch, fracturing six ribs and collapsing a lung, and jail staff and the facility's contracted healthcare provider then denied him hospital care despite his repeated pleas over the following eight days. Burch died in his cell at the Huerfano County Detention Center on April 4, 2023, and a coroner ruled the death a homicide.