Introduction to Colorado Senate Bill 83

and Resources to combat unlawful courthouse arrests

The Colorado Lawyers Committee has partnered with the Immigration Law & Policy Clinic (ILPC) from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law to share key information and tools for attorneys to support immigrant clients whose rights have been violated in and around Colorado courthouses.

Colorado Senate Bill 20-83 (SB-83) bars civil arrests, like those often made by ICE officers, at, around, and in-transit to and from courthouses and their environs. The goal of this law is to ensure a better functioning justice system in Colorado by protecting immigrants who go to courthouses from civil arrest.  Those arrests have a devastating on the ability of our judicial system to protect at risk individuals.

We hope the resources below will help attorneys to become better informed on SB-83 in order to identify potential plaintiffs whose rights under SB-83 have been violated. The CLC Immigration Task Force is drafting a compliant, in the event ICE violates the statute when the courthouses reopen. If you learn of possible plaintiffs, please let us know.

RESOURCES FOR ATTORNEYS